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The mining industry has to change the way its works in order to survive, but the geology of SA’s deposits makes a quick fix challenging. Read More

As the yearly recorded number of mining injuries and fatalities in South Africa continues to decrease, albeit at a slower pace in 2016 than in previous years, the focus of the industry shifts once again to renewed efforts to bring the number of fatalities to zero. Read More

Building on its focus of high-level research and innovation for the mining sector, the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Mining Engineering has had another productive year, with five doctoral students graduating. Read More

Free, quality higher education was not possible in the current, constrained economic climate, the Chamber of Mines has argued in its submission to the fees commission. Read More

Chief economist Henk Langenhoven says the Chamber of Mines remains positive despite the uncertainty created by the ongoing discussions on a new Mining Charter. Read More

The Minister of Environmental affairs, Dr Edna Molewa, has said that mining and its associated activities in the Mabola area is strictly regulated in terms of South Africa’s mining and biodiversity guideline. Read More

The so-called Mining Charter, in its present form, is in a Government Notice issued in 2010. It specifies various targets, as well as a detailed timetable for their attainment. Read More

The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) is failing to act in the best economic interests of the people of South Africa by continually trying to organise a separate kingdom for itself.  Read More

The legal foundation for the Mining Charter lies in Section 100(2)(a) of the Minerals and Petroleum Development Act (the MPRDA) whereby the Minister of Mineral Resources: “..must … develop a broadbased socioeconomic empowerment Charter that will set the framework for targets and time table for effecting the entry into and active participation of historically disadvantaged South Africans into the mining industry, and allow such South Africans to benefit from the exploitation of the mining and mineral resources and the beneficiation of such mineral resources.” Read More

South Africa’s Chamber of Mines will turn to the courts again should the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) record the current draft of the mining charter in the government gazette next month. Read More