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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.
Aurum Resources has declared a maiden 1.21 million ounce probable ore reserve for its Boundiali gold project in Côte d'Ivoire, backed by a pre-feasibility study showing a post-tax NPV of $1.5 billion.
Rosh Pinah Zinc's RP2.0 expansion, which will raise mill throughput from 700,000 to 1.3-million tonnes of ore a year, was more than 95% complete as at 29 June 2026, with ramp-up expected shortly after.
Fortuna Mining has delivered a feasibility study for its Diamba Sud gold project in Senegal showing a 60% after-tax internal rate of return and average production of 116,000 ounces a year.
The FTSE/JSE All Share Index opened the week of 29 June 2026 higher, supported by a weaker dollar, gains in mining shares and new listings on the exchange.
The Glencore-Merafe Chrome Venture will restart its Boshoek and Wonderkop ferrochrome smelters after finalising the detailed terms of a 62c/kWh electricity agreement with Eskom.
Ghana's GIADEC has signed a €300m memorandum of understanding with Italy's Danieli to build an aluminium foil rolling plant in Tema, capable of producing up to 45,000 tonnes a year.
The World Gold Council's 2026 Central Bank Gold Reserves Survey drew a record 76 responses, with 89% of reserve managers expecting global gold holdings to keep increasing.
Ghana's state gold board, GoldBod, signed an agreement with the Ghana Chamber of Mines on 25 June 2026 to purchase 30% of large-scale mining companies' gold output from 1 July 2026, to help rebuild the country's foreign reserves.
Swakop Uranium and NamWater have launched a joint venture to build Namibia's second desalination plant, a N$2.1bn facility supplying 20 million m3 a year to the Husab uranium mine and Erongo communities.
Sibanye-Stillwater has outlined R20bn of projects to keep a million ounces a year of underground PGM output going until 2050 and to sustain 1.5Moz a year to 2035, with optional growth to 1.8Moz.
Sibanye-Stillwater warned that the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Bill's lack of transitional provisions for past empowerment deals could complicate licensing at its R2.7bn Burnstone gold project.
West Wits Mining finalised three loan facilities worth R1.115bn with Absa and Nedbank on 22 June 2026 to fund the ramp-up of its Qala Shallows gold mine.
Goldman Sachs cut its year-end 2026 gold price target from $5,400 back to $4,900 on 20 June 2026, citing fading ETF inflows and the removal of expected rate cuts.
GoviEx Uranium and Niger's mining ministry held a week of technical and legal talks in Niamey in June 2026 aimed at drafting a new mining convention that could pave the way back to the Madaouela uranium project.
Zimbabwe's Lithium Producers' Association has asked the government to push the concentrate export ban back to June 2027, saying most processing plants will not be ready by January.
Guinea's Ministry of Mines and Geology on 18 June reviewed a feasibility study from Simfer and China Baowu Steel for a pellet plant with capacity of 2 million tonnes a year, meeting a Simandou co-development commitment.
Pan African Resources said multiple parties have approached it about co-investing in the Poplar gold project near Evander, an early-stage target estimated at 6.6 million ounces.
Mimosa, the Impala Platinum and Sibanye-Stillwater joint venture in Zimbabwe, is reviving a $130m life-extension project after PGM prices recovered from the lows that forced its suspension in 2024.
Zambia and Zimbabwe have each committed $220m in public equity to the long-delayed Batoka Gorge hydro scheme, a $4.2bn, 2,400MW project on the Zambezi, and held a market-sounding session in June 2026.
