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Gem Diamonds shares up on better sales, prices and string of 100-carat plus rocks

The company, which last month found the world’s fifth-biggest diamond in history at its flagship Letšeng mine in Lesotho, sold 21% more rocks in last quarter of 2017.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 2, 2018 | 6:41 am

Electric cars and niche metals lure cash to Africa’s mines

Here are five metals grabbing attention across the continent.

Bloomberg News | February 2, 2018 | 6:33 am

Sibanye-Stillwater trapped miners brought to surface safely

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is demanding that Beatrix gold mine remains closed pending a probe and has asked the South African government to investigate why the operation apparently didn’t have a backup generator.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 2, 2018 | 3:45 am

Glencore says copper output will rise as Katanga ramps up

The Katanga mine in Democratic Republic of Congo likely to add roughly 150,000 tonnes of copper and 11,600 tonnes of cobalt in 2018.

Reuters | February 1, 2018 | 1:57 pm

Acacia adopts fresh gold price protection measures

Miner has spent $2 million to lock in the option to sell 120,000 ounces of future output at $1,320 an ounce, as it waits for Tanzania exports ban to end.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 1, 2018 | 9:45 am

More than 900 Sibanye miners trapped underground, not in danger

Originally there were more than 1,000 miners stuck underground, but sixty-four were rescued overnight.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 1, 2018 | 3:40 am

Congo just gave the cobalt price another big boost

DRC stuns miners with immediate lifting of 10-year exemption for licensees, 50% tax on 'super-profits' and code permitting 5-fold increase in cobalt royalty.

Frik Els | January 31, 2018 | 7:23 pm

Congo shocker fells Ivanhoe Mines stock

Vancouver-based company headed by billionaire mining financier Robert Friedland loses 11% of its value after DRC stuns with new mining code.

Frik Els | January 31, 2018 | 1:52 pm

Animation: human population growth over all of history

Imagine that for every million people on Earth, there was a single dot on a map. What if we went back in time, watched dots accumulate over human history?

Visual Capitalist | January 31, 2018 | 1:44 pm

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