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The South African mining industry has 1.67 gigawatts of projects waiting for government permission to build as Eskom struggles to keep the country supplied with electricity. Read More

South Africa’s mining industry has called on Government for a mindset overhaul in respect of the country’s electricity supply, saying that load-shedding was tantamount to an industrial policy decision to “downscale the … sector”. Read More

Several mining companies in South Africa have had to temporarily shut down domestic operations after receiving requests by Eskom to reduce their load on the national power system. Read More

Roger Baxter, the CEO of the Minerals Council, is an optimistic kind of guy. He stoutly believes, for instance, that South Africa’s economic recovery can be found in the revitalisation of its mining sector. Read More

SA's mining companies shut their underground mining operations and processing plants on Monday night because of unprecedented power cuts by monopoly electricity supplier Eskom. Read More

The South African mining sector’s safety record took a blow on December 6 after four mineworkers lost their lives after becoming trapped by a rockfall at Tau Lekoa, the North West province mine owned by Village Main Reef (VMR). Read More

SA has published a new package of Carbon Tax Act regulations for public comment, coinciding with warnings from the World Meteorological Organisation that the plant has entered a new period of exceptional heat, melting ice and record sea levels due to industrial-era carbon emissions. Read More

What is effective economic transformation, especially in South Africa’s mining sector? As usual, it depends who you ask. Read More

Trade union Solidarity has called on the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s (DMRE) to can its recently unveiled draft amendments to the Mineral Petroleum Resources Development Regulations. Read More

The mining industry says it has met and surpassed most of the transformation targets set out in the government’s Mining Charter of 2010. That includes the key areas of black ownership and employment equity. Read More