AMCU plans to extend Sibanye gold strike to other South African miners
Sibanye-Stillwater last week said it could cut nearly 6,000 jobs at its gold mining operations, where AMCU has been on strike since mid-November over a wage dispute
In this frank assessment of everything from gold and diamonds to potash and zinc, Kaiser Research Online author John Kaiser names for The Mining Report readers the companies that could be swept up in a rush to security of supply.
The mines ministry has missed an April deadline to ask courts solve the issue of whether companies may claim they meet black-ownership quotas if shareholders have sold their stakes.
The decision follows a similar move by Sasol, which repatriated Friday 340 of its employees working on projects in the Southeast Africa nation for their own safety.