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James Kindon, ENRC group compliance officer.

Mining industry revisits anti-corruption procedures

Mining companies should take note of Canada’s stricter penalties and more aggressive enforcement of anti-corruption laws and make sure their anti-bribery compliance procedures are up to speed, lawyers, forensic accountants and mining…


Paladin Energy's 75%-owned Langer Heinrich uranium mine in western Nambia's Namib desert. Credit: Paladin Energy

Paladin gets PE from Asia

Like most uranium companies last year, Paladin Energy (TSX: PDN; ASX: PDN) struggled with tough markets and low commodity prices.



Processing facilities at Rockwell Diamonds' Niewejaarskraal diamond mine on the south bank of the Orange River in South Africa. Credit: Rockwell Diamonds

Rockwell Diamonds expands footprint with new acquisition

Johannesburg-based alluvial miner Rockwell Diamonds (TSX: RDI; US-OTC: RDIAF), which owns three diamond mines near the midpoint of South Africa’s Orange River, is buying assets close to its operations that will enlarge its resource base…


Equipment at Ivanhoe Mines' Platreef platinum project in South Africa. Credit: Ivanhoe Mines

Ivanhoe tables prefeasibility study on Platreef PGM project

In Ivanhoe Mines’ (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) first-ever conference call on its massive Platreef project in South Africa, executive chairman and company founder Robert Friedland declared that the orebody “is destined to change the…


A conveyor at Lucara Diamond's 75%-owned Mothae diamond project in Lesotho. Credit: Lucara Diamond

Lucara to exit Mothae in Lesotho

Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC; US-OTC: LUCRF) plans to sell its 75%-held Mothae diamond project in Lesotho after the project failed to meet the company’s investment criteria.



Mark Bristow, chief executive officer of Randgold Resources, during a motorcycle charity tour that raised US$1.6 million for orphanages and other charities in Africa. Credit: Randgold Resources

Randgold’s Mark Bristow dreams big

Mark Bristow was a 24-year-old university student when he attended a party on the eve of the Midmar Triathalon — a gruelling canoe-cycle-run event held at the Midmar Dam north of Pietermaritzburg in South Africa.


A stockpile at BHP Billiton's Illawarra metallurgical coal-mining complex in New South Wales, Australia. Illawarra will be part of the South32 spinoff. Credit: BHP Billiton

BHP spinoff South32 to launch in mid-2015

BHP Billiton’s (LSE: BLT) spinoff company will be named South32, a nod to the location of its assets  in the southern hemisphere and a more cryptic salute to the location of its main offices in Australia and South Africa.


The carbon-in-leach and detox circuts under construction in October 2014 at Aureus Mining's New Liberty gold project in Liberia. Credit: Aureus Mining

Aureus Mining ‘not a one-horse show’

Aureus Mining (TSX: AUE; LSE: AUE) has doubled the size of the aggregate resource at its Ndablama deposit in Liberia, just 40 km northeast of where the company is building its flagship New Liberty gold mine.




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