Program to monitor Congo artisanal cobalt miners expanded

Strikers at top South African platinum producer enter two-year wage deal.

Vincent Benoit will assume the newly created position of Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Development effective November 1.

Livia Mahler and Olivier Colom were appointed as independent non-executive directors.

The commodity research teams at Macquarie and Barclays, however, are not as optimistic when it comes to potash, aluminum and steel.

Vale reworks agreement with Japan's Mitsui that could breathe new life into $4.4 billion expansion of Moatize mine and railway in Southern African nation.

Key violations in the Och-Ziff case came in mining and oil and gas deals associated with Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler and DRC president Joseph Kabila.

Companies had no choice but to cut back on new developments, re-focus on profitable production rather than maximum production and to save costs.

The country is poised to becoming the world’s third largest producer of the commodity, as the massive Husab mine begins production in October.

Despite continued investment in copper assets on the continent from China and India hunting for coal mines.