Andalusite Resources discovers South Africa’s hidden gem South Africa has the world’s largest reserves of andaluliste and the Maroeloesfontein Andalusite Deposit in the Thabazimbi region is rife with this rich mineral. This new mining ...
Setting world standards for drilling services When Brian Rudd, CEO of emerging markets focused drilling services giant Capital Drilling, headquartered from Singapore, told TABJ that the company intended on being “the best drilling company ...
Avocet arrives in West Africa The Avocet story is one of putting the right team in the right place to enable a newly-focused West African gold company to soar. There are no two ways ...
Sub-Saharan Africa is an area of the globe steeped in natural resources such iron ore, coal, and uranium. A key to future development in Africa is investing into these undeveloped resources. This month ...
When TABJ spoke with Geovic Mining Corporation’s CEO, Jack Sherborne, in July 2009, he was hopeful that cobalt would be “a star performer of the 21st century,” in which case the company was well-positioned to ...
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, ...
