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Increasing Mineral Exploration. As part of efforts to address the decline in minerals production – with January 2023 marking the twelfth consecutive month-to-month decline – South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) unveiled a large-scale exploration campaign targeting discoveries and the opening up of new …
TripSavvy / Jess Macdonald. Kimberley, South Africa, is home to the world's largest diamond mine, also known as the "Big Hole.". Dug by humans and so large it is visible from space, the pit has yielded …
South Africa has the third largest mining industry in the world, where more than 2,000 mines contributed about 8 percent of the country's GDP in 2016. For decades, the mining industry, and workers …
A data-driven investigation shows that nearly R60-billion is being held in funds for the rehabilitation of mines across South Africa. Mpumalanga, the country's most important coal-mining province, alone …
South Africa is home to some of the world's largest gold mines and accounts for approximately 4.2% of the world's production of the precious metal. The …
The deepest gold mine in the world is Mponeng, a 2.5-mile hole in the ground in South Africa. A whole underground city — lightless and lawless — lives inside the mine. Journalist Matthew Hart ...
Atlantic Lithium Ltd issues exploration and resource drilling programmes update. Monday, 20 March 2023 10:00. Atlantic Lithium, the funded African-focussed lithium exploration and development company targeting to deliver Ghana's first lithium mine, has announced the commencement of auger drilling at the Ewoyaa Lithium Project.
The dangerous world of illegal mining in South Africa Play 09:19 The dangerous world of illegal mining in South Africa Every day they go to work, they have no idea whether they will...
1. Kibali, DRC. 808 koz. Kibali is the biggest gold mine in Africa, located in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), approximately 220 kilometres east of the capital of the Haut Uele province, Isiro, 150 kilometres west of the Ugandan border town of Arua and 1,800 kilometres from the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
In some mining areas surrounding Johannesburg, informal miners have been rumoured to spend as long as six months underground, sustained by makeshift underground villages where basic foodstuffs,...
Dineo Phoshoko | Apr 11, 2023 | Featured Industry Insight News Resourceful Mining. South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa recently hosted a virtual meeting with chief executives from key …
Since the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa's mines have gradually become safer. Fatalities reached a record low of 51 in 2019 — still almost one per week …
Monday, 20 March 2023 10:00 Atlantic Lithium, the funded African-focussed lithium exploration and development company targeting to deliver Ghana's first lithium mine, has announced the commencement of auger drilling at the Ewoyaa Lithium Project. Fortuna Silver Mines provides update on its Sunbird drilling programme Thursday, 16 March …
April 14, 2023. The first ever African Critical Minerals Summit will take place on November 6-7, 2023, in Johannesburg, hosted by South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources and Energy. H.E. President Cyril Ramaphosa will open the global gathering with over 2,000 delegates expected to participate. South Africa's government will welcome ...
Subscribe. "By 13 December this year, 72 people have died on South Africa's mines compared to 52 in the same period last year. This is the second consecutive year of regression in safety. In ...
Sept. 23, 2022. JAGERSFONTEIN, South Africa — The dirt wall holding in mucky waste from diamond mining grew over the years to resemble a wide, towering plateau. Suspended like a frozen tsunami ...
South Africa: Five Largest Iron Ore Mines in 2021. Sishen Mine in Northern Cape, was the largest iron ore-producing mine in South Africa, producing approximately 28 million …
THE South African mining industry is nowhere near getting a new cadastral system, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) said on the first day …
According to the Minerals Council South Africa, the main industry group in the country, more than 80,000 South African miners have been killed at work since industrial-scale extraction began in the late 19th century. More than 1 …
As of November 2019, there are 526 mines in South Africa, all of them listed on Africa Mining IQ. South Africa is a mineral-rich country and listed as the largest producers of platinum (1st), coal (3rd), gold (6th) and diamonds (7th).
In 1986, 800 South African miners died at work. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa's mines have gradually become safer. Fatalities reached a record low of 51 in 2019 — still almost one per week on average. During the Covid-19 pandemic, those figures rose again, although to nowhere near their apartheid levels.
Mining is an important contributor to the South African economy. It employs around 450,000 people and makes a direct contribution of 8.1% to GDP. Approximately 78% of these people work on...
Trade union Solidarity expressed "grave concern" over safety in South African mines following the recent deaths at Sibanye-Stillwater's Masakhane shaft in …