This book by Jade Davenport traces the history of South Africa's mineral revolution, from copper to gold, diamonds, platinum and coal. It covers the discovery, exploitation and …
As of 30 June 2023, South Africa has approximately 68Moz of gold reserves declared as proven and probable from all operational mines. Approximately 84% of these declared reserves are concentrated in Gauteng, with the remaining declared reserves being in Mpumalanga, the Free State and North West.
Groundwater properties have been substantially affected by mining in South Africa. Subsurface mining requires drawdown of the groundwater table to allow for mechanised mining operations to take place. ... (2016b) Water resources of South Africa, 2012 study (WR2012), Book of maps. Water Research Commission, Gezina, WRC …
For a number of years Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) was seen as a means of survival and in some cases a way of enrichment for many in South Africa especially in rural areas where job ...
Introduction. The Africa Mining Vision (AMV), a "pathway, formulated by African nations themselves, that puts the continent's long term and broad development objectives at the heart of all policy making concerned with mineral extraction", Footnote 1 was implemented to facilitate economic transformation in mineral-rich sections of Africa. …
Digging Deep describes the establishment and unparalleled growth of mining, tracing the history of the industry from its humble beginnings where copper was first mined on a commercial basis in …
This book analyzes the legal and fiscal frameworks for hard-rock mining in several African countries including Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Liberia, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, with reference to other resource-rich countries.
Mining continues to play a significant role in South Africa's economy, and it remains a catalyst for change. Credible, relevant and accessible industry data is vital for stakeholders to better understand the industry, its performance and its value creation.
The rapid deterioration of mining situation across Africa, becoming an increasingly 'wild west' scenario of overt illegality unchallenged by weak central authorities, was predicted as far back as 2016 by South Africa's Minerals Council – but that warning has not seen any change in the dark direction that mining in South Africa or other ...
Indicator South Africa, 1(1), pp.31-32. Seabela, M. 2021. A brief history of labour control in South Africa: Migrant Labour and the Recruitments, 1890s-1970s. Available: A brief History of Black Labour control in South Africa: Migrant Labour and Recruitments, 1890s-1970s – Ditsong Museums of South Africa Accessed [2022, May 28] Wilson, F., 1972.
CSR in the South African mining industry will be discussed with special reference to the voluntary nature of CSR in South Africa, as well as the legislative frameworks and codes of conduct guiding CSR. ... but all mining communities in South Africa have the same disappointing story to tell. With regard to environmental, health …
M M ining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15-year-old Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africa's first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867. It kickstarted what historians call the Mineral Revolution, which made few European opportunists wealthy beyond measure, and saw hundreds of thousands of men leaving …
River bank erosion and altered river morphology have been a key focuses in the Sub-Saharan African literature on sand mining: Riverbank collapse is observed in rivers in North Central Nigeria (Ako et al., 2014), along several rivers in South Africa, including the Limpopo, instream sand mining has resulted in river bank erosion (Gondo et al ...
southern Africa is the Thulamela settlement in the Kruger National Park, extant from the late 14th to the 17th century. Specularite has been mined in Swaziland for 28,000 years …
Reference is therefore made in the document to matters that are being considered by other policy ... Many mining projects in South Africa have tended to be unusually large and long term, requiring massive capital and entailing a high degree of risk. iii. South Africa has an exceptional minerals endowment, and in several major
Abstract. The trailing margin of the stable African continent is the depositional environment of several heavy mineral placer deposits of which seven have …
Racialized Identity Under Apartheid in South Africa. Living reference work entry; First Online: 07 February 2019; ... (2013) Digging deep: a history of mining in South Africa, 1852–2002. Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg. Google Scholar Dubow S (2005) Scientific racism in modern South Africa. ... Book Google Scholar Download …
This book analyzes the legal and fiscal frameworks for hard-rock mining in several African countries including Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, …
For 150 years, the mining industry has shaped economic and social development in South Africa. As of 2020, it continued to disproportionately affect exports, the production …
The discovery of platinum in South Africa probably dates back to the late 1800s (Cawthorn 2007), when concentrates from Witwatersrand gold mines and from chromitite layers in the Bushveld Complex were analysed and found to contain the metal . The mining of platinum from veins in …
In more than 150 years of mining history, southern Africa has consistently been the dominant producer of the world's diamond supply (McKechnie, 2019), producing some of the world's largest and ...
1. Introduction. The workforce of the South African mining industry (SAMI) was traditionally housed in single- mining compounds or hostels from the late 1800s (Marais & Venter, Citation 2006; Republic of South Africa, Citation 2009b).Migrant labourers were employed in the mining industry, and African men had to leave their …
To cite this article: Matthew J. Hannaford (2018): Pre-Colonial South-East Africa: Sources and Prospects for Research in Economic and Social History, Journal of Southern African Studies, …
A Perspective on the South African Mining Industry in the 21st Century An independent report prepared for the Chamber of Mines of South Africa by the Graduate School of …
Francis Wilson. 'Miners and Migrants: How the Mining Industry Has Shaped South Africa', Daedalus. Vol. 130, No. 1, Winter 2001, p. 104. Those laws bound labourers to an employer and were often reinforced by Masters and Servants Acts which made a breach of contract a criminal offence. Feinstein. An Economic History of South Africa, …
A A bout the author. Shamin Chibba has 13 years of writing experience, including three years as an editor. He has written in numerous formats, from long-form features for Al Jazeera Magazine and Brand South Africa to adaptations of classic tales for graphic novels. He also founded Seer Media, which provided news and information for NGOs in …
To promote and regulate the minerals and mining for transformation, growth, development and ensure that all South Africans derive sustainable benefit from the country's mineral wealth. The Department of Mineral Resources aim to formulate and implement policy to ensure optimum use of the country's mineral resources.
This book uniquely analyses and adds flavour to international mining's fundamental concepts by describing a simulated annealing-based approach appropriate for complex mining projects in Africa. Book …
The impact of mining on the economy and society is best understood through analysis of the value chain, rather than through extraction alone. The mining value chain stretches from the production of inputs—in South Africa, principally capital goods and construction services—to mining itself, to the metals and coal refineries, to export markets and …
South Africa's gold mines, once the apex of global gold production, now grapple with deep-seated challenges – aging infrastructure and depths that test the limits of modern mining.
In South Africa, criminal gold diggers, young men who migrate to Johannesburg for work and the excitement urban life affords, climb and crawl through abandoned gold mines that rank among the world's deepest hard rock diggings (World Bank, 2019).Remaining underground for days, and sometimes weeks or months on end, …
The scope of the book is three-fold with inter-connected relationships: Information, Technical, and Policy oriented. It will be a useful reference material for mining undergraduate students on …
2.1.1 The Southern Africa Development Community Uniqueness. In trafficking literature, human trafficking in the Southern Africa region is increasingly recognized as a product of bad governance, economic insecurity, gender inequality, and conflict that have created vulnerable populations.
Visualizing mining companies, resistance to mining companies and mining unions are just some aspects of a much wider …
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With the growth of South Africa's secondary and tertiary industries, the relative contribution of mining to South Africa's GDP has declined over the past 10 years, with the gold and platinum sectors being affected the most. In 2001, gold and platinum accounted for 25.2% and 29%, respectively, of South Africa's total mining sales . More ...
Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) The DMR is the custodian of all mineral resources on behalf of the citizens of South Africa. It is responsible for mineral and environmental policy development, promotion of the mining industry, transformation, beneficiation, mineral regulation, and mine health and safety ().Mine …
DOI reference: 10.1080/13673882.2023.00001017. ... iridium, rhodium, osmium and ruthenium. South Africa mines PMGs in the Bushveld Complex and Zimbabwe in the Great Dyke. It owns the world's largest open pit PMG mines, Mototolo and Amandelbult in South Africa and Unki in Zimbabwe. ... The only other foreign company mining platinum in …
The 1886 discovery of significant gold reef deposits on the range of hills known as the Witwatersrand, Footnote 11 would change the course of southern African history. As summarised by John Illife, the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand set South Africa on a different colonial trajectory from the rest of the African continent, gradually …