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BROKERS’ NOTES: Buy Glencore, sell Sasol

What the smart money is doing

Farmers hold their nerve as El Niño threatens summer crops

A resilient start to the summer crop season

A ferrochrome tap, Mpumalanga.

Why South Africa’s PGM miners are piling into chrome

This metal has found new popularity

MARC HASENFUSS: Alchemy, my a$$ … and other dreams

Alchemy may be out, but Mkhwanazi is in at Hulamin

Thungela's Greenside coal mine in Greenside, Mpumalanga.

Life after Anglo American

Investors need to back focused miners, as well as the majors

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PODCAST: UncoveringIT! Is Harmony in tune?

Financial Mail senior editor Giulietta Talevi discusses the latest FM cover story

Financial Mail - 22 October 2026

Harmony Gold faces an intense test of nerves in its Australian expansion amid billions in hedge book losses, heavy capital risks, and environmental challenges

What Harmony’s walkabout says about South African gold mining

Harmony's gamble beyond gold

West Wits  underground  operations.

Why South Africa isn’t striking it rich from record gold prices

Gold is at $4,200. So where are the new mines?

Roger Baxter.

A world of changes: the platinum permutations

Recent global disruptions are disrupting prices of nearly all metals

WANDILE SIHLOBO: Little room for error as El Niño looms

El Niño, shrinking aid, threaten regional food security

Orion secures Glencore payment, at last

$40m funding key to Prieska mine restart

Orion Minerals: Prieska zinc-copper project

Orion Minerals, the JSE’s star junior miner

Its shares rose about 23% and its Glencore deal was approved

How Gold Fields can bag Northern Star deal

Gold Fields needs to flesh out its $27bn bid

The Gold Fields’ St Ives Gold Mine in Kambalda, Australia.

Gold Fields threatens to walk from Aussie tilt

Gold Fields keeps Northern Star bid on a tight leash

How the government put South African mining on the back foot

Peter Major on why bad policies and BEE have stifled South Africa's mining boom

Metals and minerals — the next front in the drone war

Western nations scramble for essential metals and minerals in the drone race

Cobus Loots.

Pan African surfs the golden breaks

Pan African Resources takes advantage of the booming gold price

Four shares to rock the world

Portfolio managers at the INN8 summit reveal four global stocks to change the world

Richard Stewart.

Stillwater runs deep, but not cheap

Sibanye-Stillwater faces US labour unrest and high costs, testing its strategy of cost efficiency and operational viability