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Sibanye-Stillwater adds A2X secondary listing

SIBANYE-Stillwater will add a secondary listing on South Africa’s A2X exchange from October 6, giving investors another platform on which to trade its shares. The precious metals…

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Discovery targets mining with 24-hour renewables plan

DISCOVERY Green has signed several mining companies to a renewable power offering that targets 90% of their electricity needs. A mix of wind, solar and batteries can help meet…

MADRID, SPAIN – SEPTEMBER 13: Lando Norris of Great Britain driving the (1) McLaren MCL40 Mercedes on track during the F1 Grand Prix of Spain at Madring on September 13, 2026 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

Froneman hires Rothschild for R6.7bn F1 bid

A CONSORTIUM fronted by former Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman is working with Rothschild & Co on a bid to bring Formula One racing back to South Africa, Bloomberg has…

Richard Stewart, CEO, Sibanye-Stillwater. REUTERS/Ihsaan Haffejee

Does Sibanye-Stillwater need its US mine? Probably not

THE Stillwater palladium mine in Montana has performed many functions under the ownership of Sibanye-Stillwater, the JSE miner. When the group first bought it in 2017 for $2.2bn,…

Nico Muller, CEO, Impala Platinum

Why Implats has changed its tune on Waterberg

IMPALA Platinum (Implats) earlier this month declared R13.1bn in final dividends, a sum that outshone its rivals. It also revised its payout policy in such a way that the door is…

Sibanye-Stillwater to shut Kwezi platinum shaft costing 1,000 jobs

SIBANYE-Stillwater is to close its Kwezi platinum group metals shaft near Rustenburg, which could affect over 1,000 full-time employees and contractors. The miner said on Tuesday…

Stockpiles of uranium ore

Can this lowly priced uranium project make big bucks?

A largely unknown mining junior listed on the London Stock Exchange – Neo Energy Metals, whose current share price is less than 1 pence – is on the point of finalising a deal…

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Sibanye-Stillwater warns US mine may close if workers oppose plan

SIBANYE-Stillwater CEO Richard Stewart warned on Wednesday his company would have no option but to shut the 284,000 ounce a year Stillwater mine if a strike launched by employees…

Richard Stewart, CEO of Sibanye Stillwater. Photographer: Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images

“Juicy” mine ripe for expansion, says Sibanye-Stillwater’s Stewart

SIBANYE-Stillwater CEO Richard Stewart described the firm’s recently approved R5.5bn Mt Lyell copper project in Australia as “juicy” with significant resource expansion…

Molten copper is cast into copper anodes.
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Sibanye-Stillwater to build R5.5bn copper mine in Tasmania

SIBANYE-Stillwater today approved a R5.5bn copper-gold Mt Lyell project in Australia’s island state Tasmania producing up to 26,000 tons a year of the in-demand red metal. This…

This aerial view shows an open mine shaft in Stilfontein on November 17, 2024. Hundreds of clandestine miners at a disused South African shaft are struggling to survive in grim conditions because of a police operation to force them out, one of the men who escaped told AFP on November 17, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Policing illegal miners isn’t working. What will?

WHEN 87 illegal miners died underground at Stilfontein in 2024 – and 1,826 surfaced from abandoned shafts – the event was a symptom, not an aberration. The uncomfortable truth…

Richard Stewart, CEO, Sibanye-Stillwater

Sibanye earnings set to surge on higher gold, PGM prices

SIBANYE-Stillwater is set to report a sharp rise in earnings for the first half of 2026, supported by higher gold and platinum group metal (PGM) prices and steady operations. The…

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Valterra silent on Northam as deal speculation mounts

VALTERRA Platinum is increasingly considered the possible source of an unsolicited approach to Northam Platinum, with analysts pointing to the strategic fit between the…

Northam Platinum CEO, Paul Dunne

Valterra asset level deals most logical option for Northam

IMPALA Platinum and Sibanye-Stillwater distanced themselves from an offer for Northam Platinum on Tuesday, which means Valterra Platinum is the only one likely to have an…

A flag flies at the Northam Platinum Ltd. Booysendal platinum mine outside the town of Lydenburg in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Northam seeks bids amid “exploratory” offer from rival

NORTHAM Platinum has enlisted offers for either a corporate- or asset- deal after disclosing on Tuesday it had received an “exploratory” offer for the company from a rival…

Can this be the PGM market’s next big thing?

THE hydrogen economy was supposed to be platinum’s salvation, but it is turning out to be the lightest of lifelines. Deployment of electrolyser capacity, the technology that…

Johannesburg is having a gold rush … Sort of

THE last time gold was as valuable, prospectors, gamblers, bounders and other rakes were united in scouring the globe – from California to Johannesburg – with their pickaxes and…

Richard Stewart, CEO of Sibanye Stillwater. Photographer: Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images

For Sibanye-Stillwater, home is where the ore is

SIBANYE-Stillwater got its name as a result of offshore expansion, but following a damaging decline in metal prices that exposed its balance sheet, its new CEO is promising a…

US president Donald Trump. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Metals of war: why US Govt has weaponised mining

Eighteen mining companies went public in the past 12 months with one aim in common: an ambition to supply the US government’s defence industry. Assisted by US President Donald…

Neal Froneman: ‘Retired Rainmaker’

Uranium from seawater: Froneman plans new mining firm

NEAL Froneman led the company he founded, Sibanye-Stillwater, for 13 years before abruptly announcing he would step down last year, aged 65. Those years were a punchy, all-action…