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  • Mining: ArcelorMittal buys Brazilian iron ore business for $810m 20 Aug 2008 17:25 GMT
    ... (£435m) today for the Brazilian iron ore business of London Mining. The group created by Lakshmi Mittal is ... Virginia, USA, in Australia, India, Russia and South Africa. It is also expanding its coal and ...

  • S.Africa Q2 growth picks up as manufacturing rebounds 20 Aug 2008 16:15 GMT
    ... Q2 growth picks up as manufacturing rebounds South Africa's economy rebounded in the second quarter of ... strong recovery in the key manufacturing and mining sectors more than offset a slump in ... caused by a rebound in the manufacturing industry which grew at 14.5 percent," Joe de ...

  • BHP Eyes Congo Smelter, Corridor Sands 20 Aug 2008 16:15 GMT
    ... of Billiton when Billiton bought Australia’s Western Mining Corporation. Initial estimates showed it could be at ... but in Australia we sold two steel businesses, which was seen as sacrilege as BHP ... as BHP was known as a steel company. That reduced the workforce from 110,000 people ...

  • SA records 4.9 percent growth in GDP recovery 20 Aug 2008 15:51 GMT
    ... a result of declines in manufacturing and mining related to an electricity crunch. "Mining and ... activity in the second quarter were manufacturing industry, mining and quarrying industry, the finance, real ... quarrying industry, the finance, real estate and business services and agriculture, forestry and fishing industries ...

  • Booysendal to lift Northam into platinum big league 20 Aug 2008 15:32 GMT
    ... JOHANNESBURG, Aug 20 (Reuters) - South Africa's Northam Platinum (NHMJ.J: ) on Wednesday took ... be held in trust pending new order mining rights for the project. Northam acquired Booysendal ... current production and slightly more," Derek Wolstenholme, corporate finance manager at Northam told Reuters. "We ...

  • Platinum to fall short 20 Aug 2008 15:31 GMT
    ... will fall substantially short of recent calls, mining industry veteran Brian Gilbertson forecast yesterday. Mr Gilbertson, ... debuted on the Johannesburg stock exchange. The company's investments include stakes in two adjacent properties ...

  • Pallinghurst to do for coloured gemstones what De Beers did for diamonds 20 Aug 2008 15:28 GMT
    ... personality and chairman of Pallinghurst, says the company can create reliable supply of coloured gemstones ... than the loved diamond sector. The leading mining personality said at the company's inward listing ... made huge efforts to market the diamond industry, yet coloured gemstones already delivered higher profit ...

  • Tributes still pouring in for Mwanawasa; cabinet discusses funeral 20 Aug 2008 14:56 GMT
    ... his condolences. "The government and people of South Africa and indeed the entire Southern African Development ... Chinese firms have invested heavily in copper mining in Zambia, Africa's largest copper producer. The burly ... the capital Lusaka, where shops, banks and businesses opened as normal. "Levy is dead," the ...

  • UBR Initial Drilling and Spectral Gamma Logging Results of Uskawanis Uranium Project Confirm That the Uranium Mineralization is Widespread and Could Contain Large Tonnage of Radiometric Material 20 Aug 2008 14:56 GMT
    ... Vivian Stuart-Williams, (SACNASP), a Director of the Company and a Qualified Person as defined by ... Girard VP and CFO 514-846-3271 Toll-free 1-888-666-3431 INDUSTRY: Manufacturing and Production - Mining and Metals SUBJECT: MEX ...

  • Hip-Hop's Cash Kings 2008 20 Aug 2008 14:29 GMT
    ... list of the top-earning people in the business last year, in 2008 he cedes the throne ... Curtis . Also in the works: a mining partnership with South African billionaire Partrice Motsepe (see 50 Cent isn't ...

  • 'Take Advantage of Engineers Conference' 20 Aug 2008 14:28 GMT
    ... regional corporation". In an interview with Herald Business yesterday, president of Zimbabwe Institute of Engineers ... in various disciplines like agricultural and the mining sector. "We have to add value to ... on the current technological advancement in the industry. "The conference was inaugurated in 2004 in ...

  • Tributes still pouring in for Mwanawasa; cabinet discusses funeral 20 Aug 2008 14:27 GMT
    ... his condolences. "The government and people of South Africa and indeed the entire Southern African Development ... Chinese firms have invested heavily in copper mining in Zambia, Africa's largest copper producer. The burly ... the capital Lusaka, where shops, banks and businesses opened as normal. "Levy is dead," the ...

  • While Jay-Z topped Forbes.com's inaugural Hip-Hop Cash Kings list of the top-earning people in the business last year, in 2008 he cedes the throne to Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. 20 Aug 2008 14:26 GMT
    ... a slew of platinum albums, including last year's Curtis. Also in the works: a mining partnership with South African billionaire Partrice Motsepe. 50 Cent isn't the only star in the growing firmament of ...

  • The life of Brian 20 Aug 2008 14:17 GMT
    ... churlishness here, of course. Gilbertson is virtually mining royalty, a group in which you'd have to ... Gilbertson – I was a reporter at Business Day in the Nineties – was being ... in full working order. That’s because the company takes stakes in businesses it doesn’t directly ...

  • Get real - there is no power 20 Aug 2008 14:17 GMT
    ... scenario for Coega. Those were made in Business Report in reply to statements by BHP ... and pulled the plug on the country’s mining industry. Back to Coega. I wrote in a ...


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