What is critical to learn from the past is that the mining industry is not motivated by benevolent intentions when it comes to the wellbeing of its employees. While today…
he biggest chrome miner in the world, South African-based Samancor Chrome, has allegedly crushed black-owned chrome companies in activities that are against competition laws in South Africa. By Sifiso Mahlangu…
IT’S sixteen years since the Mining Charter was adopted by the South African mining sector, the country’s Government, and trade unions. Not quite a generation, but definitely a full commodity…
Legislation should recognise the uniqueness of SA’s alluvial diamond mining industry to unlock its wealth and potential for job creation. South Africa’s alluvial diamonds have the potential to create sustainable…
After spending a night underground, breaking off, bagging and lugging coal, Bonginkosi Mhlanga filled up a truck full of the ore which he then delivered and sold to a resident…
The challenge by South Africa’s peak mining body to aspects of the country’s 2018 mining charter is set to be heard this week. One of the Minerals Council South Africa's…
Edgar Lungu, President of Zambia Southern African country to resolve policy, regulatory issues in mining sector, says president Zambia’s president on Thursday assured mining investors that his country will develop…
Two hundred soldiers were deployed on Wednesday morning to lakes, rivers and waterways in Ghana's central and western regions. File photo. /Image: Dmitry Kalinovsky/123rf.com Ghana's military has launched a nationwide…
After decades of combined experience in Government and on the ground in the mining industry, Dr. Godwin Beene’s appointment as President of the Chamber of Mines holds much promise. Mining For…
The Sibanye-Stillwater WMI DigiMine Control Room at Wits University/Photography by Jeremy Glyn for SBPR in March 2018. 28 April 2021 – Johannesburg: The global demand for the upcoming Wits Mining…