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Palladium surged above $1,500 an ounce to a record, extending a powerful rally that’s been driven by an acute shortage of supply as car manufacturers scramble to get hold of the material to meet stringent emissions controls.
Upon reading this hugely instructive unpacking of the practical implications of the Draft Mining Charter by Anthea Jeffery, one can’t help feeling that either no advice was taken from the mining sector or that it was blithely ignored.
The death rattle of the industry that once symbolised South Africa can be heard in the town of Carletonville – on Gold Street.
In a sign that Zimbabwe’s new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is making the right noises for international investors, Tharisa, a London-listed chrome producer, has paid $4.5m for a stake in a local platinum resource.
Sibanye Gold CEO Neal Froneman has been dubbed the deal wizard of South African gold mining. Right now though, he is scaring investors, warns Bloomberg.
RMB’s Business Development Director for the mining sector Henk de Hoop shares with us the message that should be given to foreign investors at the upcoming Mining Indaba.
Known as Neal ‘the deal’ Froneman, the South African-born mining engineer who heads Sibanye-Stillwater has London investors buzzing.
Zimbabwe will trim spending and increase tax revenue next year and relax laws that require black citizens hold majority stakes in companies
Here’s the story of how Sibanye’s BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal), one of the world’s biggest mining deals of 2017, went down.
The dual nature of convertible bonds also means that issuers and investors can benefit from the protections of debt instruments and the potential equity upside, potentially offering the best of both worlds.