South Africa's mining output decreased by 10.4% year-on-year in October, with platinum-group metals (PGMs), gold, diamonds and manganese ore having made the biggest negative contribution.

More than 100 miners who had been underground for nearly three days amid a standoff between rival South African labour unions have returned to the surface. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM ...

Earlier this year, South Africa's minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, described illegal mining as a "plague" amid reports of rampant …

Impala Platinum on Tuesday temporarily halted operations at its Rustenburg mining complex in South Africa after 11 workers died and 75 were injured in what the CEO said was …

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FILE - Mining giant BHP Billiton logo sits on the outside of their head office in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Australian mining giant BHP Group on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, pledged to invest in the South African economy as it seeks support for a 38.6 billion pound ($49.3 billion) bid to acquire Anglo American, which was …

Latest news in the mining industry, including mining, gold, coal, iron ore, platinum, silver, uranium, diversified miners. ... South Africa- and UK-listed Marula Mining has found, in a revised ...

Toronto-listed Euro Sun Mining, headed by South African CEO Grant Sboros, is advancing a development-stage gold and copper project in Romania, a country which is reportedly shedding its rigidly ...

More than 2,000 workers occupy a platinum mine in South Africa for the second day in a row on Tuesday, causing concern among families as the company tries to push for an end to one of the country ...

In reality, Pretoria has a host of reasons to be awkward. South African mining is in decline: as a contribution of GDP it has fallen from 21% in 1980 to 7.5% in 2022.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The death toll from a mining tragedy last week in South Africa that involved an elevator has risen to 13 people after a worker died at a hospital, the mine operator said Monday.. Impala Platinum said that the worker died Sunday from injuries sustained when the elevator plummeted around 200 meters (650 …

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In 2023, women comprised 19% of the total full-time workforce. A survey of one year of reports from 12 of Minerals Council members across five commodities estimates that mining companies spent more than R5.18 billion on training and development in a single financial year with an estimated value of between R13,500 and …

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Average monthly salaries in South Africa increases by 2.5 percent ... Six arrested in Free State for illegally mining gold. By ... is one of South Africa's leading news and information websites ...

Coal mining in South Africa began around the same time as gold mining and is one of the country's most valuable commodities, accounting for 26 percent of mineral mining revenue in 2023.

The evolution and future of ESG in the mining industry. September 20th, 2024 | News |. By Phillipa Burmeister, partner at SRK Consulting, South Africa Like many life-changing decisions, mine was …

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — More than 2,000 workers remained underground for a second day Tuesday in a protest over pay and benefits at a platinum …

Environment Features & Analysis Gold News Southern Africa Underground Mining. Illegal mining threatens South Africa's economy. By Penelope Masilela. September 18, 2024. ... Illegal mining activities in South Africa cost the formal mining industry over $7 billion rand ($370 million) annually, resulting in lost mineral reserves …

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.

The Johannesburg-based platinum shut down most of its mines in South Africa after an accident at its No. 11 shaft killed 11 workers and saw another 75 hospitalised on Monday. Impala said Wednesday ...

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This is an undated photograph of Impala Platinum mine shaft 11, provided by Implats on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, near Rustenburg, South Africa. An elevator …

Many of South Africa's mineral reserves, estimated to be worth $2.5 trillion remain unexploited. Pretoria is now seeking a two-fold increase in investment in the sector by 2030.

September 24, 2024. The US government awarded a grant to South32's Hermosa project to boost manganese production for battery technology, supporting the …

A few years ago, a mining company was considering reopening an old mine shaft in Welkom, a city in South Africa's interior. Welkom was once the center of the world's richest goldfields.

In 2004, the year South Africa's far-reaching Mining Charter was first introduced, black ownership in South Africa's globally recognised mining industry stood at a negligible 2%. This has now ...

The year 2023 proved to be an exceptionally demanding period for the global mining industry, with South Africa facing multifaceted and far-reaching challenges. These challenges have pushed the sector into a state of crisis-mode management, which has become the norm in the management of South African mines.

An accident at a platinum mine in South Africa has killed 11 workers and injured 75, the mine's operator says. Impala Platinum chief executive Nico Muller described it as the "darkest day" in the ...

However, South Africa's mining industry is in a fragile state. The 2023 development capital investment in South Africa witnessed a continued recovery, up 133% to a five-year high of $1,985.5 million from $1,068.4 million in 2020, supported by investment in gold and PGMs. ... Gain access to our full news & research coverage and …