Anglo American has named a consortium led by former De Beers chief executive Gareth Penny as preferred bidder for its 85% stake in De Beers, with chief executive Duncan Wanblad saying the long-running sale process is close to its end.
The International Energy Agency said the copper supply outlook has worsened significantly, warning DRC mines reliant on sulphuric acid leaching face a strong set of near-term challenges.
Maamba Energy's $450m Phase II expansion, adding 300MW of thermal capacity plus a 100MW solar plant, is targeted for completion around July 2026, doubling Zambia's largest independent power producer.
Arrow Minerals has been granted a new three-year exploration permit for its Niagara bauxite project in Guinea, restarting work after a year-long suspension.
Tharisa produced 39,600oz of PGMs in its third quarter to June 2026, up from 34,300oz, and kept full-year guidance, while warning that chrome prices had eased on weaker stainless steel demand.
De Beers announced on 13 July 2026 that it would pause production at its Venetia mine in Limpopo for two years and begin Section 189 consultations over job losses.
Congolese tax authorities sealed the offices of Glencore's Kamoto Copper Company in a dispute over payments the state says it is owed, though production was unaffected.
Northam Platinum produced a record 1.69Mt of chrome concentrate in FY2026, with Eland's output up 49.5%, while refined PGM output from its own mines rose 4.4% to 938,754oz.
Namibia and China signed nine cooperation agreements during President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah's state visit to Beijing in July 2026, including a green minerals agreement naming uranium, lithium and rare earths as strategic priorities.
Lobito Atlantic Railway is aiming to roughly double the tonnage of copper and cobalt it carries in 2026, as weekly train frequency rises toward a longer-term capacity target of 4.6 million tonnes a year.
Burkina Faso has awarded an industrial mining permit for the Bouboulou gold project to a subsidiary of state miner SOPAMIB, with no private operator involved.
Iron ore prices in China stood at $109.43 a tonne in June 2026, with record port stockpiles and weak construction demand offsetting stronger manufacturing steel use.
The Kiniero gold mine in Guinea produced 54,252oz in the second quarter of 2026, up about 38% on the first, as throughput ran at roughly 9Mtpa against a 6Mtpa nameplate.
The FTSE/JSE All Share Index fell on 8 July 2026 as a weaker rand and softer mining stocks outweighed a still-bullish gold price.
Aya Gold & Silver's Zgounder mine in Morocco produced 1.5-million ounces of silver in the second quarter of 2026, up 43% year on year, helping lift group revenue 151% to $96.8m.
West African Resources' Kiaka gold mine produced 133,274 ounces in the first half of 2026, keeping the company on track for annual guidance as Burkina Faso's government increases its equity stake.
Mali's transitional parliament has approved a law creating a new state agency, OMASP, to regulate and secure the sale of gold and other precious minerals amid huge estimated smuggling losses.
The DRC said it expects no major disruption to copper and cobalt production despite Middle East supply-chain pressure, reporting first-quarter copper exports of 824,000 tonnes.
A technical fault on ZESA Holdings' network caused a nationwide power outage in Zimbabwe on 6 July 2026, before engineers restored supply, underlining the fragility of the country's grid.
Rössing Uranium celebrated 50 years of operation at a ceremony in Swakopmund, with Chinese majority owner CNNC pledging continued investment in the world's longest-running open-pit uranium mine.
Gold's steepest monthly fall since 2008 in June 2026 cut nearly 25% off the JSE's precious metals and mining index in the second quarter, with AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields and Sibanye-Stillwater all sharply lower.
Lindian Resources has completed the first production blast at its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi, starting active mining ahead of a targeted fourth-quarter start-up.
South Africa's Asset Forfeiture Unit has permanently seized seven trucks found loaded with chrome ore after a North West High Court order, stemming from a 2025 raid on an illegal mining operation at Marulakop.
Transalloys, South Africa's only remaining manganese alloy smelter, stopped all furnace operations on 1 July 2026 after being excluded from the emergency electricity tariff that rescued ferrochrome producers.
