Mining
As Rod Webster, CEO for Weatherly International PLC, the UK-based, AIM-quoted copper player, begins our interview for IRJ by saying that things have “been going very well,” we can’t help but think that ...
Today Legend Mining, an ASX-listed junior headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, has one of those company-making projects that every junior explorer wants to have on its asset register, and it all started with a cup ...
Back in 1951, the South African government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the state-owned financing institution, created a company called Foskor (Then “Fosfaat Ontginnings Korporasie”). What began as a single mining operation with the sole purpose ...
Following a happy year-long accord with Central Rand Gold (the gold prospector and miner operating in the Central Rand Goldfield of South Africa), TABJ has one word that could characterise the company’s activity—that word is ...
As Peter Landau, Executive Chairman at Continental Coal, says, coal was by no means a standout commodity in South Africa up until the last three years. Continental, an Australia-headquartered junior explorer-come-producer active in South Africa, ...
In May 2003, a company by the name of Discovery Nickel was formed. Prompted by new opportunities to explore some of the former Falconbridge exploration prospects following the company’s incorporation into Xstrata, Discovery Nickel began ...
When we last spoke to Riversdale Mining Limited, a mining house from Sydney, Australia, the company was announcing their plans to go ahead with the development of a $800-million coal mine in Mozambique in conjunction ...
On October 20, 2009, African Energy Resources Limited, an Australian company working in minerals exploration and development projects in Southern Africa, made an exciting announcement. The press release proclaimed a ‘new area of mineralization confirmed ...
Weatherly International PCL began as a cash-shell back in 2005 with the expressed purpose to develop a company which would take advantage of opportunities in Africa. “[Management] had aspirations to be a world-class resource company,” ...
Picture this. It is 1886 and Australian Prospector George Harrison is going about his business at the Langlaagte farm in Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He discovers gold within the region and our story begins. ...
