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The Minerals Council SA will talk to mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe and his team about a few issues that it is unhappy with in the recently gazetted Mining Charter 2018. Read More

The Minerals Council of South Africa said the Mining Charter gazetted last week represented “a clear and durable framework”, an acknowledgement that any potential court challenge is highly unlikely. However, it stopped short of providing a ringing endorsement saying it was concerned about a requirement to adopt new 30% ownership target on mining right renewals. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa, on behalf of its members, welcomes the publication of the Mining Charter and broadly supports its intentions and content. This new Mining Charter is the product of substantial engagement between key stakeholders and is a compromise that reflects different difficult choices that have been made. Read More

These unresolved issues include the limited applicability of continuing consequences of past transactions on the disposal of black economic empowerment shareholding, MCSA, which is led by CEO Roger Baxter, said on Wednesday. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa said in a statement that it “remains concerned about some key issues” including the “practicality of the Inclusive Procurement provisions relating to local content targets for mining goods, the targets for services, and the turnover threshold for junior miners.” Read More

In a country which hosts the majority of the world’s deepest underground mines hundreds of elite Mines Rescue Services team members risk their lives to react to emergency situations. Read More

The Mineral Council of South Africa has put in a lot of money into an initiative that believes that it can rescue the mining industry through technology. Read More

A South Africa moderately more attractive to investors would catalyse the creation of 50 000 more mining jobs and an additional 200 000 jobs overall, Minerals Council South Africa CEO Roger Baxter told the Africa Down Under conference in Perth on Thursday. Read More

Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe was lauded at an investor conference for the progress he has made in addressing concerns of stakeholders in the mining industry. Read More

The Minerals Council of South Africa has pumped millions into seismicity research associated with deep-level mines, in an effort to drastically reduce fatalities. Read More