Impala Platinum is in talks to buy its smaller rival Royal Bafokeng Platinum.

Exporters are required to surrender 40% of their foreign currency earnings to the central bank, in exchange for local currency at the official rate.

Kiaka is within 40 km of West African Resources' Sanbrado gold mine, which poured its first gold in March 2020.

The Block 14 project is considered to be one of the leading gold projects in Africa, with a net present value of over $1 billion at today's gold price.

Botswana’s first iron ore mine, Ikongwe, has started production and delivered its maiden exports to China.

While resource nationalism had been relatively contained geographically speaking in the past, it is spreading across the world, Fitch warns.

MINING.COM sits down for a conversation with Denise Johnson, Caterpillar’s mining chief, to talk about the future of mining and the trends shaping the industry.