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The Chamber of Mines, acting on behalf of gold producers AngloGold Ashanti, Harmony Gold and Sibanye Gold, has welcomed the ruling by the Constitutional Court in favour of the three gold producers.  Read More

Mining has shed 65,000 jobs since the last quarter of 2015, Stats SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey shows. Read More

The Chamber of Mines of South Africa has welcomed President Jacob Zuma's commitment to ensuring that the mining sector remains a priority area of the economy. Read More

Chamber of Mines vice president Neal Froneman says expensive, labour-intensive mining methods could result job losses if smart new machines are not introduced. Read More

It is possible to extend the lives of existing mines, was one of the messages conveyed by Neal Froneman, vice president, Chamber of Mines, while giving a glimpse of the future of mining to the media at the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town. Read More

Advisory firm Eunomix has released a second report into the alleged misinvoicing of gold exports by South Africa, which the Chamber of Mines (CoM) says further refutes claims by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) that South African goldproducers had misinvoiced billions of dollars of gold exports to reduce their tax liabilities. Read More

The only thing anyone was talking about at this year’s Investing In Africa Mining Indaba was the new mining charter set to drop in March of this year. Will it be the Radical Economic Transformation engine that mining executives have not been waiting for? Or will it be something...well, more typically ANC. Read More

The Chamber of Mines published a second report from economic consultancy Eunomix on Tuesday, which has refuted allegations of misinvoicing by South African mining companies put forward last year in UN report. Read More

We were weak in acknowledging the issues of the past – Froneman. Read More

The Chamber of Mines (CoM) has cautiously welcomed the address by Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane to the Investing in African Mining Indaba, in Cape Town. However, it has various concerns, and has called for a practical and workable third iteration of the Mining Charter, which is currently under review. Read More