Modikwa platinum mine

Global mining giant Anglo American has made a priority of its struggling platinum business, admitting earlier this year that the world's largest primary producer ‒ Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) ‒ is underperforming in the face of soaring costs, imposed safety stoppages and weak demand.

Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited has resumed trading in coal derivatives more than a decade after parent Royal Dutch Shell exited the coal business and sold its mines.

The head-frame of Gold Fields’ Tau Tona mine is the lone entrance to over 800km of tunnels

Gold Fields Limited ‒ the world's fourth-largest gold producer ‒ has reported an 18% fall in quarterly earnings, albeit above expectations, as output and the bullion price in South African rand both declined.

The plant at Paladin Energy’s Kayelekera uranium mine in Malawi

Paladin Energy Limited ‒a TSX and ASX-listed uranium production company with two operating mines in Africa ‒ says it is confident of an early return to full production at its Kayelekera mine in Malawi, where workers have been on strike since last weekend.

Italian energy firm ENI has announced a new natural gas discovery of up to 10-trillion cubic feet off the Mozambican coast.

Pat Davies ‒ has joined the BHP Billiton board

BHP Billiton chairman Jac Nasser has announced the appointment of Pat Davies to the company board as an independent non-executive director, effective 1 June 2012.