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Mining Weekly | Africa

06 March 2026

The latest mining world news and project information from Africa. providing updates on the progress of future, new and existing projects. Developments in mining legislation, policies, investments and infrastructure will be highlighted
  • Rand Refinery expands bursary programme, socioeconomic initiatives
    Precious metals refiner Rand Refinery has expanded its bursary programme and socioeconomic initiatives. Since its inception in 2023, the Rand Refinery Bursary Scheme has grown, with the number of bursaries awarded increasing every year, from ten in 2023 to 26 in 2024, 59 in 2025 and 94 this year.
  • Samancor Chrome may retrench the majority of its 2 403 smelter, corporate employees
    Ferrochrome producer Samancor Chrome has issued a retrenchment notice in terms of Section 189 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA). It envisages that about 2 400 employees may be retrenched at its smelting operations, including Dikwena Chrome, Ferrometals, Middelburg Ferrochrome, TC Smelter, Tubatse Alloy and Tubatse Ferrochrome, as well as at its corporate offices.
  • Blencowe’s Iyan MRE increases overall Ugandan project mineral base
    London-listed Blencowe Resources has completed a maiden Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (Jorc-) compliant mineral resource estimate (MRE) for the recently discovered Iyan deposit at its 100%-owned Orom-Cross graphite project, in Uganda. The maiden Iyan MRE incorporates assay results from the 87 shallow drill holes completed to date with an inferred mineral resource of 16.9-million tonnes at 6% total graphite carbon (TGC), confirming Iyan as a high-tonnage, near-surface extension of the wider Northern Syncline graphite system.