Operations at the world's deepest gold mine, in South Africa, have been halted after 164 cases of coronavirus were detected there.

TSHIPI TO RETURN TO FULL OPERATIONS FROM 1 MAY

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Responded to market conditions to maintain the financial strength of our business by suspending the remaining US$121M of our current on-market share buy-back program and lowering FY20 sustaining capital expenditure guidance, including equity...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]JOHANNESBURG - Manganese mining company Tshipi é Ntle has donated R5 million to the coronavirus (Covid-19) Solidarity Fund set up by President Cyril Ramaphosa to help fight the disease in South Africa, company board chairman Saki Macozoma sai...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] KEY POINTS South Africa remains the most affected country in Africa by the pandemic, with 2,415 confirmed cases as of Wednesday morning according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Jupiter Mines Limited ('Jupiter') (ASX: JMS) reports that the South African Government has extended the country's lockdown until the end of April.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Approval to restart operations partially at the Tshipi Borwa manganese mine has been granted to Tshipi é Ntle Manganese Mining by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, ASX-listed Jupiter Mines has announced.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] South Africa allowed mining companies to resume operations at half their normal capacity as the government takes its first steps to ease a nationwide coronavirus lockdown.