BRITS POS – BRITS – Eastern Platinum (Eastplats) announced that it would start producing first chrome from its Crocodile River operations outside Brits in the fourth quarter after reporting good progress year-to-date with the commissioning of a re-treatment facility.

To read the full story, read our 31 August 2018 issue.

BRITS POS – BRITS – The black-controlled platinum mining company Royal Bafokeng (RBPlat) recently announced that its joint venture partner Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) had agreed to accept R1.8-billion for the remaining 33% of the Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine (BRPM).

To read the full story, read our 20 July 2018 issue.

BRITS POS – BRITS - Platinum group metals (PGMs) mining company Northam, which is in a strong organic and acquisitive growth phase, will be generating 6 500 new mining jobs in the next four to five years, which dovetails with President Cyril Ramaphosa's 'sunrise' aspirations expressed in his well-received State of the Nation Address.

To read the full story, read our 2 March 2018 issue.

BRITS POS – BRITS - Deputy Mineral Resources Minister Godfrey Oliphant recently said the South African government had taken a decision to gradually regularise the activities of illegal miners on a merit basis.

To read the full story, read our 23 February 2018 issue.