Colombia to set up reserve zones amid miners’ concerns
Designating certain areas as temporary reserve zones, will effectively restrict extraction and exploration in those areas, companies warn.
South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) on Tuesday called on its members at Sibanye-Stillwater’s platinum operations to embark on a secondary strike over job cuts and wages.
Sibanye-Stillwater last week said that it could cut nearly 6,000 jobs in a potential restructuring of the company’s gold mining operations – where AMCU has been on strike since mid-November over a wage dispute – after losses at some of its mines last year.
(By Tanisha Heiberg; Editing by David Goodman)
