Bimha mine, Zimbabwe’s leading platinum producers dropped production of the metal by 50 percent recently after a major collapse occurred underground in Zimplats, Ambriefonline reported. The collapse art one of the operations underground cist the company 50 percent of the total metal production. The report did not elaborate when the …

Strike afflicted and Anglo American owned Platinum miner, (Amplats) was capitalising its mechanised mines and might spend up to R100-billion (about K50 billion) on them plus Amandelbult in the next ten years, its chief executive officer, Chris Griffith told Mining weekly, Monday. At the company’s announcement of highly acceptable financial results …

Global advanced training simulator provider ThoroughTec Simulation will be demonstrating their new CYBERMINE continuous miner and dragline simulators at Electra Mining Africa 2014 between 15-19 September. Both of these simulators were designed and built at ThoroughTec’s state-of-the-art facility in Umhlanga Ridge, Durban. The CYBERMINE continuous miner, based on a Joy …

Ahmed Kalej Nkand, the chief executive officer for Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-run largest copper producer, Gecamines has been fired for alleged ‘gross negligence’ according to a Presidential decree issued by the Presidency, Reuter’s reports. Although Government officials have not divulged details and reasons for the dismissal of Nkand, it …

Vale Mining Limited, Brazil’s diversified multinational miner’s total nickel output stood at 61,700 tons in the June quarter this year, compared to 65,200 tons a year earlier, the company has said. In a statement, the company states that from January to June 2014, the miner produced a total of 129,200 tons …

Copper output from Zambia, Africa’s main copper producer increased over 100,000 tones in the first quarter this year compared to a year earlier, the Bank of Zambia says. According to the Lusaka-Based Bank of Zambia, copper production rose to over 400,000 metric tons in the first quarter of 2014 from …

First Quantum Minerals Limited forecasts to produce 300,000 tons of copper by the end of this year at its ‘Greenfield’ Sentinel Kalumbila mine by the end of this year, a mine official says. The Sentinel mine, part of the US$2 billion Trident project located west of Solwezi in North-Western Province, …

Reminiscent of South Africa’s raging labour unrest, Swaziland is experiencing a mining sector worker crisis, relative to the small country’s equally small mining industry, a report says. The traditional country’s mining problems have a unique African flavour. Chiefs and their councils have been implicated in allegations of bribery by would-be …

Paragon Diamonds seeks to conditionally increase its interest in the Lemphane Kimberlite project in Lesotho, owned by Meso Diamonds, to 100 percent from 85 percent. The company, which already has projects in Lesotho, Botswana and Zambia, said it is moving toward the stage one mining development phase at the Lemphane …

The Chamber of mines of Zambia, a consortium of foreign mining companies operating in the country are not opposed to the principal of the windfall tax but how it is applied in the industry, says its President, Emmanuel Mutati. The consortium says while it supports the tax regime, mining companies …