Zimbabwe has suspended a 15 percent tax on raw platinum exports after mining companies asked the government to give them 2 years to set up smelters...
South African platinum miners at work. PHOTO/File World number-one platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (AMPLATS) is to sell a swathe of its most labor-intensive South African...
Differences over possible job cuts in South Africa’s platinum mines emerged on Tuesday as mining union Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) prepared to sign...
Thousands of miners at a mass rally called by South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) mining union were given a program on Monday...
A South African labor court has thrown out an urgent application the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to stop platinum firms communicating directly with...
South Africa’s economy shrank 0.6 per cent quarter-on-quarter in the first three months of this year. This was as a massive decline in output from the...
A deal to end a four month strike in South Africa’s platinum mining sector continues to be elusive, as mining companies and striking workers have taken...
Mining companies helped lift South African shares higher on Tuesday. This is after mining union members and executives from the world’s top platinum producers met to...
Talks to end a strike over pay that has crippled production at the world’s largest platinum mines will resume in South Africa tomorrow. The Commission for...
Wage talks between South Africa’s AMCU union and the world’s top three platinum producers resumed on Tuesday to try to end a nearly two-week strike that...
South Africa’s economy cannot afford more mine labor unrest, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Monday, as the platinum industry’s main trade union served notice on...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) declared a wage dispute on Thursday with platinum producer Lonmin, raising the prospect of sector-wide...
(Reuters) – Fewer than one in five workers turned up for work at Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats) South African platinum mines around the city of Rustenburg,...
Members of South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) will stage a work stoppage to protest job cuts, AMCU...
South African workers of the world’s third largest platinum producer Lonmin have engaged in industrial action, halting all of the company’s mine operations and reigniting fears...
The National Union of Mineworkers, an ally of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, said it will ask for a double-digit increase in pay when negotiating...
Platinum miners at work at the Unki mine in Zimbabwe. PHOTO/AFP Anglo American Platinum, the world’s largest miner of the metal, has agreed to transfer majority...
Striking platinum miners in South Africa have accepted an agreement for higher wages with London-registered Lonmin PLC and plan to return to work Thursday, a mediator...
(Reuters) – Two South African mines reopened on Monday after labor strife forced them to suspend operations last week, but striking miners vowed to keep operations...
Miners at work in Zimbabwe. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Around 60 miners trapped underground on Tuesday after an accident and fire at Zimbabwe’s Mimosa platinum mine have...
