Mining sector shows its biggest decline in fatalities

Mining health and safety statistics for 2019. Mantashe released the 2019 mine health and safety statistics on Friday, 24 January 2020, which showed that the sector had recorded 51 fatalities in ...

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A breakdown of mining in South Africa

In 2023, women comprised 19% of the total full-time workforce. A survey of one year of reports from 12 of Minerals Council members across five commodities estimates that mining companies spent more than R5.18 billion on training and development in a single financial year with an estimated value of between R13,500 and R21,700 per full …

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Declining productivity in South African Mining …

The trends since 2006 show three important points: Weighted measures of mining industry production in South Africa have declined steadily since 2005, dropping 11% overall and 1% per year on average. Based on data …

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Marikana Platinum Mine, Rustenburg, South Africa

Production at the South African platinum mine. As of June 2012, the mine's PGM attributable production was 51,369oz, which represents 12% of the group's production for the 2012 financial year. This was a decline of three percent from the 52,962oz produced the previous year. Cash costs were $1,319 per PGM oz.

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South African Mining Industry Trends Report 2022 with

Dublin, Oct. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "South African Mining Industry Trends Report 2022" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets's offering. This report provides an overview of ...

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THE DECLINE OF THE MINING INDUSTRY

South Africa's Mineral Industry, a pamphlet produced by the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) in 2005, provides details and captures the decline graphically. In 1995 …

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South African mining industry in crisis: South African Chamber of Mines

The South African mining sector is in crisis. There are solutions to 'restoring the dream' of a prosperous, growing, and transformed mining sector. Baxter noted that key governance and policy challenges in South Africa have eroded business and investor confidence. Baxter also noted that it was very concerning that the Minister of Mineral ...

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THE DECLINE OF THE MINING INDUSTRY

The Political Economy of the Mining Industry in South Africa 14 2.1 Introduction 14 2.2 The State of the Mining Industry 15 2.3 Changes in the Legislative Framework 20 2.4 The Impact of the Changes on the Mining Unions 26 ... There has been a massive decline in the mining industry over the last ten years. This is ...

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The plight of mining cities in South Africa: Planning for …

The mining sector's share in South Africa's economy has declined over the past 30 years, as has employment on the gold mines. Yet many new mining areas have developed. Mining growth has been driven primarily by platinum and coal, with iron ore and other metals contributing. Of South Africa's 39 'small' or 'secondary' cities, 19 have or ...

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An Industry in Decline: Understanding the Politics behind South Africa

The party ended in 2008. Global recession took hold and South Africa woke up to a reality in which the country's mining industry had actually shrunk and manufacturing was in steep decline. While the international sanctions during the 1970s and 1980s were a knock to the South African economy, it also resulted in a certain level of …

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South Africa's declining mining sector in five key statistics …

06 Aug 2020 0. South Africa's mining sector is in a state of structural decline, as these five statistics show. But because of international commodity prices and the sector's own efforts at reform ...

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14 September 2021 11:00

However, 'mining of gold and uranium ore' reported a decrease (-R0,6 billion). Between 2012 and 2019, the 'mining of coal and lignite' group gained the biggest percentage …

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The Slow Decline of South Africa's Mines: A Dying …

Mining has held $24 billion for South Africa's economy, but violence across the region has fueled a decline in stakeholders. Since 2019, mining companies have …

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The effects of policy on mining in South Africa

Between 2002 and 2018 mining in the GDP of South Africa has remained stagnant. In comparison it grew by over 25% in Canada, and by over in Australia. During the period, South Africa's economy grew less than that of these two countries. This highlights the extent of the stagnation of the sector in a low growth economy

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Statistics show massive decline in mine …

The South African mining industry employed 514 859 individuals in 2019. If the mining sector is represented by a group of 100 workers, 39 are employed in the platinum group metals sector, 21 in the …

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(PDF) Projectification in the South African mining industry …

The mining industry in South Africa has long been a significant contributor to the economy from a . ... In addition, the continued decline in the commodity price by 38.3% (2012–2016) has ...

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14 September 2021 11:00

Embargoed until: 14 September 2021 11:00. Statistics South Africa. Risenga Maluleke Report No. 20-01-02 (2019) Statistician-General. STATISTICS SOUTH AFRICA. Mining industry, Report No. 20-01-02 (2019) ii. Mining industry, 2019/ Statistics South Africa. Published by Statistics South Africa, Private Bag X44, Pretoria 0001.

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Mining industry sees financial decline due to labour and …

South Africa's mining industry continued to be marred by labour unrest in 2014. In addition, local cost pressures and international demand weaknesses resulted in shrinking margins and wide ranging impairment provisions. The significant decrease in profitability of the industry fuelled the contraction trend in market capitalisation of South …

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SA Mine Highlighting trends in …

The 2012 financial year saw the top 39 mining companies shed all the gains made since 2010. Market capitalisation for these top 39 companies declined by 9% from R910 billion

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(PDF) Mineral policy impact on South Africa's …

This report summa rises an empirical analy sis of the impact of key Gov ernment policy interventions s ince the advent of democracy. in South Africa on the mining sector. This analysis has be en ...

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Mining industry in South Africa

Since then, the mining industry has become hugely important to the country, contributing roughly 202 billion South African Rand (roughly 10.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2023 to South Africa's ...

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Plus ça change ? Mining in South Africa in the last 30 …

This article examines the history of South African mining over the last 30 years. It notes the declining contribution of mining to the economy, and a drop in employment levels …

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South African mining companies see fall in financial …

PwC assurance partner Andries Rossouw said: "Financial performance for the South African mining industry in 2015 was extremely challenging and downcast." In 2014, revenue only increased by a mere 4%, operating expenses increased by 14% and the share of labour costs decreased marginally from 47% to 45% in 2015.

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The story of the decline of the South African mining …

The book will tell the story of the evolution of the South African mining industry since 1980 and recount personal experiences and opinions of people who have played important roles in the ...

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What are the key trends in the South African mining industry …

Market capitalisation. In 2020, total market capitalisation in the South African mining industry increased to 1.280bn South African Rand ($59.7bn) from R840bn ($39.2bn) in 2019. That marks a R439bn ($20.5bn) year-on-year increase from the previous year, which PWC said was "largely attributed to the increase in market capitalisation of ...

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AngloGold says there's no escaping demise of South African gold

(Bloomberg) — South Africa's gold industry, once the world's largest, faces an inevitable decline, according to the chairman of the country's biggest producer of the metal by market value.

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The collapse of mining in South Africa in one graph

Mining output in South Africa is on a steep downward decline, with production 13% below the level seen in the 1980s. This was revealed in a presentation by Minerals Council of South Africa chief economist Hugo Pienaar at the Mining Indaba this week.. Pienaar explained that mining was not only the backbone of South Africa's …

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The story of the decline of the South African mining industry

PDF | On May 1, 2018, I. Robinson and others published The story of the decline of the South African mining industry | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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Mining in South Africa: production jumps in February 2024

Following two calendar years of decline and a poor start to 2024, Stats SA reported that in real terms, total mining in South Africa production surged by 9.9% year-on-year (y-o-y) in February 2024. This was the fastest annual rate of increase since July 2021 when annual mining in South Africa output was rebounding from the depressed …

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