Macmahon Holdings Ltd has provided an update on the continued growth of its order book. Tropicana Project Extension The Tropicana mine is a joint venture between AngloGold Ashanti Australia Ltd (70% and operator) and Regis Resources Ltd (30%), and is one of Australia’s largest gold producing mines. Macmahon has been providing mining services since opencast […]
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Address infrastructure challenges in mining communities – Mineworkers’ Union
The Ghana Mineworkers’ Union (GMWU) of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called for drastic changes in the current sharing model of the country’s mineral royalties. This is to address the gaps in infrastructural development of mining communities. It said a breakdown showed that, in essence, government made only one per cent of the […]
Deputy Minister of Lands leads delegation from Sudan to Western Region
The Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr George Mireku Duker, on Wednesday led a delegation from Sudan to Tarkwa in the Western Region. Mr Duker who is also the Member of Parliament for Tarkwa-Nsuaem Constituency was accompanied by Mr Mohamed Basheer Abdalla Mennawi, Minister of Minerals of the Republic of Sudan, Ambassador Mohamed […]
R500m ‘blown’ on AngloGold hospital, and it only has ‘six patients’
The Gauteng health department controversially used R500 million from Covid-19 funds to refurbish the hospital, with numerous questions subsequently being raised about its capacity and utilisation. The refurbished AngloGold Ashanti hospital. Picture: Gauteng government In a statement on Thursday, the DA decried the use of half a billion rand from the Covid-19 budget on a […]
Canada’s Yamana Gold sees Brazil mine expansion costing up to 74% less
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 30 (Reuters) – Canadian miner Yamana Gold is cutting its projected expenses to expand the Jacobina complex in northeastern Brazil by up to 74%, after tests at its processing plant went better than expected, Chief Executive Peter Marrone told Reuters. The company plans to increase its annual production capacity at the […]
I had no equity in US$5m hotel JJ arbitrarily demolished in 1999 – Sam Jonah
Sir Sam Jonah, Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital • In 1999, the Jerry John Rawlings government demolished a property valued at US$5 million in Accra • Talk at the time held that the demolition of Alhaji Yusif Ibrahim’s hotel was for political reasons • Sam Jonah has addressed the speculation and insisted years on that […]
R500m ‘blown’ on AngloGold hospital, and it only has ‘six patients’
The Gauteng health department controversially used R500 million from Covid-19 funds to refurbish the hospital, with numerous questions subsequently being raised about its capacity and utilisation. The refurbished AngloGold Ashanti hospital. Picture: Gauteng government In a statement on Thursday, the DA decried the use of half a billion rand from the Covid-19 budget on a […]
Perenti contract extends AngloGold Ashanti relationship
Perenti at work in Ghana. Image: Perenti AngloGold Ashanti has awarded a $470 million contract for mining services to a Perenti Global joint venture (JV) at the Iduapriem gold mine in Ghana. AMAX is a 60:40 JV between Perenti’s surface mining business African Mining Services (AMS) and Ghanaian mining services company MAXMASS. In line with […]
Gauteng’s new R500m hospital only has six patients
Gauteng Premier David Makhura at the opening of AngloGold Ashanti Hospital. Picture: Supplied. Johannesburg – The R500m hospital opened amid much fanfare by Gauteng premier David Makhura to help with the rising numbers of Covid-19 cases has only had 25 patients since it started operating in May and currently has six. The Gauteng Health Department […]
AngloGold Ashanti awards major mining contract in Ghana
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Contract miner Perenti on Monday reported the award of a A$470-million contract from gold miner AngloGold Ashanti at its Iduapriem gold mine, in Ghana. The contract was awarded to a surface mining joint venture (JV) between Perenti’s African arm, African Mining Services (AMS) and Ghanaian mining services company MAXMASS. Perenti’s part of […]