Who we are

Mineweb is a web-based international mining publication focusing on mining financial and corporate news and comment. The publication made its debut in South Africa as Miningweb in April 1999. Mineweb.com, launched in January 2000, represents the first foray into international internet publishing for Moneyweb Holdings, the site's owner. Moneyweb is a media holdings group listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange [JSE:MNY].

What we do

Mineweb exists to serve a community that relies on it for education, updated information about mining and metals investment, and breaking news. The news covers corporate and operational developments in mining all around the world and in all sectors of the industry. Comment and analysis of trends in mining and metals and related businesses are also part of Mineweb's extensive coverage of the international natural resources sector.

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Mineweb's Engineroom

Lawrence (Lawrie) Williams - Chief Executive (Mineweb)

Lawrie is a former CEO of top mining industry business publisher, Mining Journal Limited, up until its takeover by current owners, Mining Communications Ltd. (MCL) in 2003.

Lawrie brings an impeccable, and impressive, mining and publishing background to Mineweb. He graduated as a Mining Engineer from the UK's premier mining academy - The Royal School of Mines (part of London University's Imperial College of Science and Technology).

He has a South African Mine Manager's Certificate of Competency and has worked in management positions in the mining industry in Canada (uranium at Eldorado's Beaverlodge operation), South Africa (gold at Randfontein Estates and Western Areas and platinum at Rustenburg). He also worked in sales management for a South African mining equipment sales company in Johannesburg which included spending time on one of Zambia's major copper mines (Roan Antelope) before joining Mining Journal, initially as Financial Editor and Editor of the company's Quarterly Review of South African Gold Shares - which latterly metamorphosed into the World Gold Analyst.

Within the Mining Journal Group he then became editor of Mining Magazine, a top mining industry monthly technical publication and was the founder and first editor of the International Gold Mining Newsletter (now World Gold), before moving into corporate management, initially as Marketing Director.

Latterly he was Chief Executive/Managing Director of Mining Journal for 13 years, before its sale to Mining Communications in 2003. He was responsible for the, inception, planning and launch of three of Mining Journal's suite of international technical publications - Mining Environmental Management, Geodrilling International and World Tunnelling.

During this time he was also for a time President of Reno-based US mining publisher, Mining Media Inc, for which Dorothy Kosich, now Mineweb's Americas Bureau Chief, was the Editor and General Manager. Mining Media was the publisher of North American Mining magazine.

In the 1980s and 90s he teamed up with International Investment Conferences to help give that company a foothold in the mining sector and was involved with the initial planning of the Investing in the Americas and Indaba mining investment conferences, as well as the retail-oriented investment events in New York, San Francisco, Boston and latterly Las Vegas. The association with IIC continued up until shortly before Mining Journal Limited's purchase by Mining Communications.

He has thus been involved with both the technical and the financial end of the mining sector for over 30 years and brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and industry contacts to his role with Mineweb, including living and working through previous mining sector boom/bust cycles.

At Mineweb, as well as writing material himself, his principal function is in developing the site to meet its huge potential as the industry's No. 1 website for international mining and mining investment news.

EDITORIAL TEAM

Dorothy Kosich -Deputy Editor and Americas Bureau Chief

The former Editor and General Manager of mining publications, North American MINING and Mining World News, Dorothy Kosich began her journalistic career as a television reporter, whose freelance work included the "CBS Evening News" and "60 Minutes". Eventually, she moved on to print journalism, specializing in state government and business reporting for daily newspapers, and nowadays is often referred to as "a veteran Nevada journalist."

Along the way, Dorothy worked as a research and policy analyst, paralegal, college professor, land use planner, retail sales clerk, and whatever else would pay the bills. Her mining industry career includes consulting in sustainable development, community consultation, and indigenous peoples issues for several major mining companies around the world including AngloGold Ashanti in South Africa.

She has an extensive range of mining industry contacts and friends, including top executives of many major mining companies, and key US Federal and State administrators, which gives her a unique, and broad, perspective on the North American mining sector in particular.

The granddaughter of a Nevada gold miner, she also worked for the Nevada Mining Association.

Dorothy has an MA in Journalism, and an MPA in Public Administration from the University of Nevada Reno.

Tessa Kruger - Southern Africa Correspondent

Tessa holds an honours degree in journalism from the University of Stellenbosch. She gained her first mainstream journalism experience at the Afrikaans national daily newspaper Beeld in Johannesburg where she worked on various news beats including crime, transport and local and provincial politics for four years.

She then joined well known South African communications agency Meropa as a communications consultant to handle media relations for the local national ports authority.

Her experience in communications led to a business writer position at former national daily This Day.

She then sought some international experience in London working for Trident Communications and Argus Media for almost two years before joining Mineweb in Johannesburg in October.

Rhona O'Connell - London Specialist Contributor

Rhona is a recognised authority in the metals markets, with over 25 years' experience as an analyst in the sector.

After graduating from Cambridge University with a law degree she gained her first experience in the precious metals markets working for mining company Consolidated Gold Fields Ltd. The company was then the producer of the Gold Surveys that are now under the auspices of GFMS, and Rhona was involved in the compilation of these Sruveys along with in-house analysis of silver and the platinum group metals for mine feasibility studies and marketing plans. She subsequently worked for commodity brokers Rudolf Wolff, was the precious metals analyst for investment bankers Shearson Lehman and spent ten years as a metals markets analyst in the stock broking fraternity before managing the gold market research at the World Gold Council.

In addition to writing regularly for Mineweb, Rhona is the managing director of GFMS Analytics, part of the GFMS group, which provides independent market analysis specialising in precious metals market analysis and comment. The areas covered constitute gold, silver, platinum and palladium, looking at the markets themselves in the context of the economic, political and financial environment while considering also the performance of other asset classes and related mining equities.

John Helmer - Moscow Specialist Contributor

John is the most unlikely doyen of the foreign press corps in Russia, not simply because he has been despatching the news from Moscow for longer than anyone else - since 1989, 18 years - but because he's the only foreign reporter to work independently of the big national or multinational media groups, and to specialize in Russian business.

Educated at Harvard University, with an academic career teaching sociology and a political career advising governments far behind him now, Helmer is the South African correspondent in Moscow. He is one of the most widely read specialists in the business world for his news-breaking stories on Russian base and precious metals, diamonds, mining, shipping, insurance, food trade, and business policy.

Helmer traces his family's origin in Russia to the 19^th century. He is now married with a Russian wife and daughter, the former a psychologist, the latter an actress. One of his ancestors had a narrow escape from Napoleon's army in 1812. Others were lost in the German siege of Leningrad in 1942. He himself had a lucky scrape with the KGB in 1989, when he was put to sleep with a drug-laced glass of champagne, and then interrogated, before he was given the antidote to bring him round. "I've had even luckier escapes since then," he says. "In mining, as in life, I'm afraid I've gotten to know where all the skeletons have been buried, and also several who have risen from the grave."

Ross Louthean - Australasian Correspondent

Ross needs little introduction to those involved in the Australasian mining scene and is very much the doyen of specialist eporters on thi sector. He has been writing about Australasia mining for over 30 years and has been instrumental in launching a number of Western Australia-based specialist mining publications and services iover this time. His coverage of the Australasian mining scene is second to none and brings a huge enhancement to Mineweb's worldwide coverage to the table.

The above members of Mineweb's reular editorial team are supplemented and assisted by a number of regular freelance writers and specialist correspondents from around the world who specialise in mining and mining financial writing and reporting.

Alec Hogg - Editor in Chief
Alec Hogg founded Mineweb's parent company, Moneyweb, in April 1997. Apart from a two and a half year stint as a Group General Manager at ABSA Bank, he has spent his career in financial journalism as a writer, editor, broadcaster, columnist and publisher. During this time he held senior positions in the print media, served as the Head of News Input at SABC TV News and ran his own publishing business. Recipient of many awards, he is the youngest ever winner of Suth Africa's Financial Reporter of the Year Award, aged 22 in 1983. Founded and published the country's first weekly horseracing magazine, Racing Digest, which was eventually absorbed into the Caxton publishing group. Alec is the CEO of Moneyweb and hosts the Moneyweb Power Hour radio programme broadcast throughout South Africa on Radio 2000 (97.2 - 100.2 FM) week-nights from 6pm to 7pm; and rebroadcast from 7pm to 8pm on Radio Today 1485am and Audio Channel 70 on DSTV. Alec also regularly hosts CNBC Power Lunch with Moneyweb.

Barry Sergeant - Consulting Editor - Africa
After being admitted as an advocate in Johannesburg and Botswana, Barry Sergeant was persuaded to move to newspapers by his journalist sister, Melanie. He spent the next decade with what was then Times Media Limited, working at the Business Times section of the Sunday Times (where he spent a year working alongside Alec Hogg), and Business Day, but mainly at the Financial Mail, eventually as a senior editor. Sergeant then joined the investment banking sector in order to acquire an inside view of how overall capital markets really worked. During his overextended foray into investment banking, Sergeant was rated as an investment analyst in surveys in both Johannesburg and London. He crossed into corporate finance and dealmaking, mainly in natural resources, and worked extensively in the field in West Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Britain and Europe. Turning his newly acquired investment banking knowledge to account, Sergeant quit the industry ahead of the biggest global bloodbath in market history, and finally returned to his first choice of occupation. Barry Sergeant specialises in markets and investigations. He primarily works on Moneyweb, but his specific background and interest in the mineral resource sector brings an extremely valuable addition into Mineweb's African reporting capabilities

Conflicts and disclosure policy

• The integrity and, where relevant, confidentiality of Mineweb's news sources is paramount.
  
• Mineweb does not write, accept or publish advertorial material.
  
• Mineweb writers are never compensated by companies for writing articles for this publication.
  
• Mineweb has business relationships and investments in and from a variety of companies. These relationships are disclosed in editorial content where and when relevant. Ordinary advertising relationships, content distribution agreements, or service contracts do not require disclosure.
  
• Mineweb does not review its own services or those with which it has a business relationship.
• Editorial staff will refuse any offer that could be misconstrued by the giver or suggest that Mineweb is beholden to particular interests.
  
• Editorial staff must disclose products solicited for review.
  
• Mineweb is committed to the speedy correction of any errors in fact or interpretation brought to its attention.
  
• Published information not produced by regular Mineweb editorial contributors will be clearly marked as such.

Policy on share transactions

Mineweb's editorial staff is required to adhere to a policy that ensures that personal interests do not affect their reporting. Mineweb writers may not buy or sell shares in any publicly listed company within two weeks of writing a story related to that company or related shares. The rule does not apply to mutual funds. Editorial staff may not accept special investment opportunities that are not available to the ordinary public.

Registered subscribers may have access to certain stories before they become generally available. Subscribers are not required to pay for such content. Outside contributors are required to disclose their investment interests where appropriate.

WHY ADVERTISE ON MINEWEB

The answer is very simple. Because Mineweb brings you exposure into the mining and the mining investment sectors that  is just  not available from other media.

Mineweb is led by London-based Lawrence (Lawrie) Williams - former Chief Executive of World-renowned mining publisher, Mining Journal .  Lawrie is a qualified and experienced mining engineer with operational and mine planning and mine finance work in the industry under his belt including stints in Canada in uranium mining, South Africa in gold and platinum mining as well as in Zambia on one of the biggest mines on the Copperbelt and also as a mining company analyst for one of the major South African mining companies. Within the Mining Journal organisation he started as Financial Editor on the flagship Mining Journal, progressed  to editor of Mining Magazine and then to Marketing Director and subsequently Managing Director/CEO of the whole group - a position he held for 13 years.

He is aided in his editorial work on Mineweb by, among others, regular Mineweb correspondents Dorothy Kosich in Reno, US (herself a long time mining and political journalist who has also worked in an advisory role for Anglo American Corporation), Rhona O'Connell in London, a very well-known specialist metals and commodities analyst,  John Helmer in Moscow who provides insights into the ever-growing Russian involvement in international mining which are just not available elsewhere and Ross Louthean in Perth, the doyen of Australian mining journalists.

These key correspondents are supported by a number of others in important locations worldwide as well as South African web specialist, and Mineweb parent company, Moneyweb Holdings' complete team of Johannesburg-based financial journalists including Barry Sergeant, whose often controversial views and analyses form an important part of Mineweb's reporting.

Mineweb thrives on its independence of spirit and editorial coverage and thus is read avidly all around the world by mining company executives and by investors in the mining sector who need to benefit from good, accurate and timely independent information and comment on the worldwide mining and metals sectors. It is probably the best read mining and mining investment site on the web and is totally free to its readers - paid for by sponsorships and web advertising from major, mid-sized and junior mining companies, mining financial organisations and associated service providers around the world who have found Mineweb able to give them the kind of exposure they need - not just on a weekly, monthly or less frequent basis as with magazine advertising, but throughout the day and night for all of the 150,000 + ‘unique readers' Mineweb achieves in a month. This exposure is both subliminal and direct - depending on how the viewers read the pages.

For advertisers, if you need to get your message across to either mining sector executives, or to fund managers, brokers, bankers and individual investors, there is no better site around.

Mineweb has an immensely loyal following worldwide in all these categories. If you haven't ventured into web advertising yet, then try Mineweb, which offers an extremely effective way to reach your market, wherever it is in the world.

Mineweb is currently involved in a wide ranging co-operation agreement with top Canadian-based, but internationally focused, website - Infomine - which will further boost readership access and diversity of resource available through the site.