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MiningWeb Weekly: Eskom’s “last-chance deal” for SA smelters - Peter Major on what comes next
By
Alec Hogg
4 min read
Peter Major unpacks Eskom’s three-month lifeline for SA smelters and warns what it means for electricity prices, industry competitiveness, and the survival of key mining sectors.
Miningweb Weekly: Peter Major on Glencore’s big bets, copper hype and gold’s reality check
By
Alec Hogg
4 min read
Peter Major on Glencore deal fever, copper hype risks, and why gold still beats mining shares right now.
Miningweb: The Economist - Guinea’s Chinese-owned iron ore giant could bring riches or ruin
By
Editor BizNews
5 min read
A giant iron-ore mine could bring Guinea riches or ruin. It all depends on how the country’s junta uses the windfall
Molten copper is cast into copper anodes in a furnace at the Glencore Canadian Copper Refinery (CCR) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. The refinery has a production capacity of 325,000 metric tonnes of copper per year, sold in the form of cathodes. Photographer: Graham Hughes/Bloomberg
By
Editor BizNews
4 min read
Glencore urges investors to trust copper expansion plans despite decades of underperformance and missed production targets.
The Raubex Group Limited logo
By
Editor BizNews
3 min read
Raubex considers exiting mining as it evaluates the sale of Bauba Resources, signalling a strategic shift back to core infrastructure operations.
Miningweb: Power crunch forces Glencore to close two South African smelters
By
Editor BizNews
2 min read
Soaring power costs force Glencore to cut jobs and shutter smelters in SA
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