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Positive international macro-economic trends over the last few months should have had a positive outcome for the mining sector highlights the Chamber of Mines. Read More

South Africa's Chamber of Mines said on Thursday that coal producers and unions had agreed to retain a collective bargaining framework for wage talks in 2017, defusing a potential source of friction. Read More

Mining shares of all stripes are certain to be affected if mines minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, makes good on a promise to gazette a “revolutionary” new mining charter, the third since 2004. Read More

How are junior miner's fairing amidst the uncertainty in the industry? Discussion Panel: Tebello Chabana, Chamber of Mines; Alan Clegg, Chairman: Shumba Energy; Chris de Vries, MD: Venmyn Deloitte. Read More

After years of on-off negotiating, South Africa’s platinum sector is no closer to extracting an agreement with its government on minting an investment coin – a state of affairs that has Chris Griffith, CEO of Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) scratching his head. Read More

A team drawn together from the Chamber of Mines, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and equipment makers is awaiting the unprecedented gift of an underground South African mine to begin actively testing ideas and machines that are designed to prevent the country’s gold and platinum production from falling off a cliff in little more than a decade. Read More

The 128-year-old Chamber of Mines intends to come up with a new identity and name over the next few months. Read More

The Chamber of Mines of South Africa is looking forward to the years when a platinum Mandela coin gains pre-eminence globally, emulating South Africa’s great success with gold coinage. Read More

A new formidable leadership that will sing from the same hymn sheet. Read More

The 128-year-old Chamber of Mines of South Africa provided an important indicator of its intended new direction when it revealed that the Zambezi Protocol would be its guiding light as it embarked on its identity and name-change programme. Read More