Anooraq Announces Appointment of Head of Exploration and Mineral Strategy

October 10, 2008 Filed Under: Precious Metal  

Anooraq Resources Corporation announces that Bava Reddy has been appointed as Executive Exploration and Mineral Strategy for the Company. Bava Reddy is a geologist with more than 13 years geological and mineral resource management experience in the mining industry. Mr. Reddy was appointed Executive Exploration and Mineral Strategy as of October 1, 2008. Mr. Reddy holds a BSc. (Honours) degree in Geology... 

Anooraq obtains key regulatory approvals relating to the acquisition from Anglo Platinum of a controlling interest in the Lebowa Platinum Mine

August 26, 2008 Filed Under: Platinum Group Metals  

Anooraq Resources Corporation announces that it has received key approvals required for implementation of its transaction with Anglo Platinum Limited for the acquisition of an effective 51% equity interest in the Lebowa Platinum Mine, together with an additional 1% controlling interest in the parties’ current joint venture projects, namely the Ga-Phasha Project, the Boikgantsho Project and the... 

South African women push for top spots in mining

December 19, 2006 Filed Under: Mining Services  

Smangele Mngomezulu worked for 15 years at South African mining giant Anglo American, but apartheid-era laws banned her from donning a hard hat and shoveling ore. Now, over a decade after the collapse of race laws, she heads down into sweltering underground mines as the owner of her own company, with Anglo as one of her customers. Women like Mngomezulu are still rare, despite the scrapping of apartheid-era...