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To integrate safety into a mining company’s work routine, a holistic approach is required, says gold mining company AngloGold Ashanti GM Francois Naude. Read More

The Chamber of Mines has rejected the view that the mining industry has had a purely negative impact on society in mineral-rich sub-Saharan Africa. Read More

(As originally published in Business Day on 18 October 2016)
The Chamber of Mines, the focus of Friday’s student march in Johannesburg, has seemingly been identified by student leadership as a symbolic representative of South African business, which is seen as a promising source of the funding required to fulfil the demand for free tertiary education. In the circumstances, some perspectives from us on the issue would seem appropriate. Read More

Mining companies cannot resolve social delivery issues on their own. Read More

The Chamber of Mines, the focus of Friday’s student march in Johannesburg, has seemingly been identified by student leadership as a symbolic representative of South African business. Read More

Talk about pain before we reach a common vision, Says Froneman. Read More

With South Africa facing a slow growth environment, further taxation demands cannot be placed on the corporate sector to fund universities in aid of free education, Chamber of Mines CEO Roger Baxter said on Friday. Read More

The global mining industry is experiencing a lower appetite for expansion from lenders and shareholders, as well as a drop-off in capital expenditure, noted Chamber of Mines CEO Roger Baxter on Wednesday, citing PwC’s Mine 2016 report titled ‘Slower, Lower, Weaker . . . But Not Defeated’. Read More

Digital mine organisation, which uses the internet of things as a platform, is being developed as a pilot project by coal-mining company Exxaro, whose CEO Mxolisi Mgojo said last night that innovative advancement is no longer a nice-to-have but an imperative for mining industry survival into the future. Read More

While, for many decades, the mining industry dominated the South African economy, today it is one of the smallest in terms of GDP contribution, and despite many new mining licences being granted, jobs have declined rapidly. In 1975 the industry contributed just under one million jobs, today that number is less than half a million. Read More