Investing in South Africa's Mining and Mineral …

Learn about the economic and strategic importance of mining and mineral beneficiation in South Africa, the country's mineral reserves, exports, infrastructure, and support …

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Black economic empowerment in the South African …

management and to the control of financial and economic resources to a wider base of the black population. However, ... Economic Empowerment Charter for the South African Mining Industry was introduced in 2003. The financial, resources and industrial sectors generally tend to disclose

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Policy and Regulatory Framework for South Africa's Mining Industry

This briefing has been published by Lucas Moalusi and Godfrey Malesa of Fasken Martineau, South Africa, who have agreed to Simmons & Simmons making it available to elexica subscribers.There's never been a more pertinent time to reflect on the current landscape of the mining industry in South Africa than now.. The year 2018 …

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Policy and Regulatory Framework for South Africa's Mining …

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Occupational lung disease in the South African mining industry

The total cost, both internalised and externalised, of gold mining related lung disease represents 6 per cent of the 1996 wage bill and 2.6 per cent of the gold mining industry's contribution to ...

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The true cost of downtime in the mining in South Africa

The mining industry in South Africa has performed poorly over the past ten years, with its contribution to the national GDP having halved since 1994. Year-on-year production fell by 3,3% in January, according to Statistics South Africa, with downtime, power outages and uncertainty around regulatory policies significantly hamstringing the …

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South Africa's Miners Addressing Climate Change …

Key Challenges Facing South African Mining. Trade risk. South Africa ranks in the top 20 of most carbon-intensive global economies on an emissions-per-GDP basis. Indirect electricity-use-related emissions (Scope 2) make up the bulk (~77%) of total Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions in the mining sector.

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Mining Law in South Africa | Laws regulating …

WHICH BODY OR GOVERNMENT ADMINISTERS THE MINING INDUSTRY; The mining industry in South Africa is administered by the Department of Mineral Resources, the head office of which is …

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Benefits and Costs of Reducing Tuberculosis Among …

economic benefits and costs of TB prevention and control and implications for the mining industry and mineworkers and their communities in South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Swaziland. The study will detail the economic returns (benefit-cost ratio) of a program of expanded testing and treatment of gold and platinum-group metals (PGM)

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Gold Mining in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities, and …

South Africa's gold mines, once the apex of global gold production, now grapple with deep-seated challenges – aging infrastructure and depths that test the limits of modern mining.

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South Africa Pioneering AI-Revolutionized Smart Mining in Africa

The global mining industry is enthusiastically embracing the myriad of opportunities presented by AI, spanning big data processing to optimization of tedious tasks. ... This promotes the smooth running of cost-effective mining operations, and a safe working zone with minimal environmental damage. ... South Africa, Africa's top mining country ...

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ESG In The South African Mining Industry: A Spotlight On …

The principal statute governing the mining and minerals industry in South Africa, namely the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 ("MPRDA"), will have been in effect for 20 years, come 1 May 2024. Section 2(d) of the MPRDA, ...

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How 30 years of democracy has transformed South Africa's mining industry

South Africa's 30 years of democracy has changed the character of this country's mining industry profoundly, Minerals Council South Africa emphasised in a report that highlights the industry ...

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Mining Indaba 2024: Africa's future in AI mining

Mining Review Africa (MRA) is the leading monthly magazine and digital platform in the African mining industry. Every month, MRA reaches an audience of over 50 000 influential mining authorities and key decision makers through a variety of channels, including an interactive website, videos and print distribution at all major mining …

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The strategic competitiveness of the South African mining …

The South African mining industry has a history of a range of major challenges, including high operating costs that have had a negative impact on mines' profitability and financial …

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Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African mining industry

The first theme addresses trends in silicosis in the South African gold-mining industry over a period of 33 years, and the second explores the potential for occupational respiratory disease in the under-researched platinum- and diamond-mining sectors. ... Health care costs were externalised away from the mining companies as a …

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Transformative Change in the South African …

The South African mining sector has faced its own fair share of challenges over the past few years. Changes in economy, complexities with labour, rising costs, and political uncertainty have …

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An analysis of maintenance performance systems in the South African

maintenance cost for most mines in South Africa and in ... The mining industry in South Africa is more than 150 years old. ... Further modes of development of control information systems in ...

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Black peoples' control of South Africa's mining industry in …

The Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Charter (Mining Charter 1) of 2002 called for Black people – referred to as Historically Disadvantaged South African (HDSAs) – to own 26 percent of the value of equity and mine assets and achieve 40 percent (including 10 percent for women) representation on the higher-level management to …

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Mining management: The path to operational excellence

While the ten largest companies in the manufacturing and business services industries have seen their productivity index grow by around 15 percent and 25 percent respectively over the past 25 years, the ten largest companies in the mining industry have seen only marginal growth of around 1 percent over the same period.

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Mining Sector Report 2022

The South African mining sector employed 458,954 in 2021.1 These make the mining sector a vital industry for the LRS to monitor. The rich data extracted from the LRS's …

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IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Exploring Occupational …

The health and safety of the miners in the South African mining industry are guided by the regulations and standards applied to promote a healthy work environment. The miners must comply with …

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SA Mine 2019 In Transition

Mining companies have begun to enjoy some welcome relief in 2019, as gains in commodity prices, aided by a weaker rand, began to bring the industry back into …

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Cost control and margin protection in the South …

Cost control and margin protection for the South African mining and metals industry is based on research and interviews conducted by EY between May 2013 and August 2013 with senior executives from a number of mining and metals companies operating in South Africa. Executives were interviewed and asked to prioritize their top …

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SA Mine 2020

The total revenue generated by the South African mining industry for the year ended 30 June 2020 grew by 4%. This was mainly driven by PGMs, gold and iron ore, which saw increases in revenue for the 12-month period. ... Investment can only be attracted if the SA mining industry can be cost competitive with its global peers. The …

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Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African …

throughout South Africa. Another harmful mineral that occurs commonly in South Africa is asbestos. Although much research has been conducted on the health effects of silica dust and asbestos fibres in the major mining industries in which exposures to these minerals occur (viz. the gold-mining and asbestos-mining sectors), little is

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the impact of labour relations in the mining sector in south africa

The mining sector is the major contributor to South African GDP and provides employment to some 500 000 workers directly and a further 500 000 indirectly. I will attempt today to analyse how the South African mining industry finds itself in such a …

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Hazards identified and the need for health risk assessment in the South

Although mining is a cornerstone of the South African economy (), it generates copious amounts of dust. 1 The dusts may be toxic since they may also be contaminated with various toxic metals.For this reason, the prevalence and severity of occupational diseases in the mining industry depends on the ores mined, the …

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5 ways for the mining industry to manage energy costs

Nowhere is this more pronounced than in energy-intensive sectors such as mining, where energy costs represent a significant portion of operational expenses, particularly in South Africa, where the ...

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How does the mining sector impact the South African economy?

Finance currently accounts for 20% of GDP, with the state accounting for 17%. Moreover, it is worth noting that the gold mining industry is quite beneficial for the country's economy. According to 2018 data, South Africa exported gold, which was estimated at 35 South African Rand billion.

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African countries lost control to foreign mining companies …

In the DRC, state revenue tripled from US$190 million in 1967 to US$630 million in 1970. A national health system numbering 500,000 employees was established.

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Technology and growth in the South African mining …

The South African mining industry and its sustainability are threatened by many global and local challenges. These challenges vary from high production costs, low profitability, labour unrest, to increasing ... by 7.6%, and mining cost inflation has been 2% to 3% higher than general inflation, resulting in two-thirds of our output being in

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SA Mine 9th edition

towards December 2016 and the dominant position of South African supply for these commodities. The cost control measures that the industry took ownership for started …

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Mining Sector Report 2023

A report on the financial performance and directors' remuneration of twelve JSE-listed mining companies in South Africa from 2012 to 2022. The report covers sub …

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Trends in productivity in the South African gold mining industry …

Industry cost curve were constructed using an algorithm in Tholana et al. (2013). As mentioned previously, only listed companies with operations in South Africa were considered because of the availability of data and the appropriateness as proxy for the South African gold mining industry.

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FDI technology spillovers in the mining industry: Lessons from South

Cooperative R&D initiatives in the mining industry enabled South Africa to operate at the technological frontier of mining equipment technology. However, in recent years the sector has been in ...

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Social impact assessment in the mining sector: Review and comparison …

In case of high economic dependency on the mining industry, ... No indicators are actually available to represent the inflation and rising cost for accommodation in the mining community. ... An input-output analysis of the impact of mining on the South African economy. Resour. Policy, 26 (2000), p. 1. Google Scholar. Switzer, 2001.

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