South Africa’s mining production fell by 9% year-on-year in November last year Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports in its latest mining production and sales report. The 9% decline is a slight improvement over the 11% year-on-year dip that was recorded in October. However, financial services firm Investec noted on

Aim-listed diamond producer BlueRock Diamonds reports that waste stripping increased in December as mining activities at its Kareevlei diamond mine, in Kimberley, South Africa, returned to normal after the focus was shifted to ore from the KV2 resource to feed the plant to determine the realistic plant capacity. As such,

Diamond miner De Beers sold $410-million of rough diamonds in its final sales cycle of this year. “Demand for our rough diamonds over the final sales cycle of 2022 was in line with expectations, ahead of the normal seasonal closure of polishing factories in southern Africa over the Christmas period

Aim-listed BlueRock Diamonds notes in an operational and corporate activity that the results of the two-month test to determine the realistic capacity of the Kareevlei plant at the diamond mine in South Africa, which started in mid-October and was carried out with the assistance of mining and processing specialists, confirmed

ASX-listed Lucapa Diamond Company has received a further A$8.8-million tranche from diamond company Sociedade Mineira Do Lulo (SML).  That completes the previously approved SML shareholder loan repayment of A$14.8-million, Lucapa said on December 14. 

South Africa’s mining output decreased by 10.4% year-on-year in October, with platinum-group metals (PGMs), gold, diamonds and manganese ore having made the biggest negative contribution. Financial services provider Nedbank’s economics unit pointed out that this marked the ninth consecutive month of decline in mining production. “Erratic power supply, inflationary pressures,