1. INTRODUCTION. Mining communities in South Africa are unique in being mainly isolated, originally rural, with high illiteracy rates, and very dependent on the mining companies for their livelihood and development. In addition, they are often exposed to toxic environmental hazards from mine operation wastes.
The Minerals Council of South Africa has highlighted that prior to 1994, black mineworkers were unable to obtain managerial roles, women were prohibited by …
African countries, suggesting that mining has not translated into inclusive growth. This report attempts to examine and weigh the various benefits and costs that mining has …
Human Rights Watch revealed in a report that about 12,000 children, some as young as 8, are working in artisanal and small-scale gold mines in Tanzania, while in Ghana thousands of children between the ages of 12 and 17, and some as young as 9, continue to work in hazardous conditions in unlicensed gold mines. In Mali and Burkina …
Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) is a world leader in heavy mineral sands extraction and refining and is South Africa's largest mineral sands producer. RBM mines the vast mineral rich sands of the northern KwaZulu-Natal province and produces predominantly zircon, rutile, iron and slag – materials ...
by Adenike Adeodun January 30, 2024. The year 2023 proved to be an exceptionally demanding period for the global mining industry, with South Africa facing multifaceted and far-reaching challenges. These challenges have pushed the sector into a state of crisis-mode management, which has become the norm in the management of South African …
Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act ("MPRDA") The MPRDA is the primary legislation governing mining rights in South Africa. It sets out the requirements and procedures for obtaining, maintaining, and transferring mining rights, as well as the environmental, social, and financial obligations of mining rights holders.
In 2023, the total revenue of South Africa's mining industry was 654 billion South African rand (around 34.8 billion U.S. dollars). The mining industry in South Africa has seen a doubling of its ...
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The INR project educates communities on sand-mining with the aim of curbing the spread of illegal sand-mining and enabling communities to take ownership of their local resources by informing them of the government …
business enterprises in sand and gravel mining in West Africa. The practice can be lucrative. For example, sand diggers in Benin are paid on average between US$87 and US$125 per truckload. Sand mining accelerates severe coastal erosion, extensive environmental degradation and an increase in risk from the forces of the sea on coastal …
In 2018, The Gambian government issued a mining license to Gambia Angola China (GACH) Mining Company to mine black sand, which has high concentrations of zircon, silica, and quartz, in ang village, Kombo South. GACH allegedly also carries out undisclosed black sand mining in nearby villages Batokunku …
This data adds support to the notion that the sand mining industry is vital to the South African economy. Because sand mining is carried out without formal approval from regulatory agencies ...
Yet the history of mining in Southern Africa, a region marked by high levels of inequality, is beset with controversy. According to the McKinsey report of February 2019 (Putting the shine back into South African Mining – A path to competitiveness and growth), the mining value chain is the historic bedrock of South Africa's economy.
The paper, titled Transformative Pathways in South Africa's Mining Sector: Chartering an ESG-Aligned Era, takes a look at the Charter's successes and shortcomings. It acknowledges the significant progress made in Black ownership, which has increased from 2% to 39% since 2004.
Natural sand from estuary and coastal land is one of South Africa's most valuable resources. However, there has recently been a drastic increase in uncontrolled and unauthorised sand mining activities in rivers, valleys and estuaries throughout the country. The frameworks governing small-scale sand mining in South Africa lack the necessary ...
Illegal mining is on the rise in South Africa and presents challenges that need to be addressed from a range of perspectives. It takes place at abandoned mines and at operating mines with illegal miners often operating under dangerous conditions. The growth in illegal mining, could be attributed to the combination of a difficult socio-economic ...
The trailing margin of the stable African continent is the depositional environment of several heavy mineral placer deposits of which seven have developed …
Keywords: estuaries, sand mining, negative externalities, social costs, valuation 1 Introduction Sand is an important input to the construction industry, especially in developing countries such as South Africa, where there is a pressing needs to …
Thus far local, regional and national governmental departments, including the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and the DEDEAT, and the South African Police (SAP) have not stopped the …
February 9, 2022. Mining stakeholders have a key role to play in ensuring a brighter future for mining communities. The communities surrounding mines have a critical role to play, not only in the feasibility of a mine, but in the long-term viability of the area after mining resources have dried up. Mining organisations have both a legal and ...
How sand mining is portrayed in South African media, emphasizing the geographical distribution of mentions and impacts across the country.
There are now three producing mines in South Africa: Richards Bay Minerals and Ticor, both in KwaZulu-Natal, and Namakwa Sands in the Western Cape. There are also …
African Sun Mining (Pty) Ltd, is a proudly South African, Black-Owned, top opencast mining contractor, established in 2011. The aim is to develop and grow African Sun Mining (Pty) Ltd to be the best hard and soft rock mining company, both in South Africa and internationally, with a commitment to Zero Tolerance on Safety.
In 2004, the year South Africa's far-reaching Mining Charter was first introduced, black ownership in South Africa's globally recognised mining industry stood at a negligible 2%. This has now ...
1. Introduction. In post-apartheid South Africa, proposals for mining are becoming increasingly situated in rural areas and/or in pristine areas of natural beauty (Duda, 2017; Leonard and Lebogang, 2017; Leonard, 2016) with some of the most profitable South African mines situated today on land in the former homelands that is …
Sand mining in South Africa is controlled by a complex regulatory system that can be distilled into three main themes: mineral regulation; environmental regulation; and land …
If you want to conduct mining operations you need to obtain a mining permit from the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE). No person is allowed to mine without a mining permit. Mining permits are not transferable. They are aimed at controlling prospecting and mining, having regard to considerations for health and safety ...
The Company, via its 50% owned South African subsidiary, Mineral Sands Resources (Pty) Ltd ("MSR"), is a leading producer of zircon, rutile, garnet and ilmenite concentrates from the high-grade Tormin Mineral Sands Operation on the west coast of South Africa. Tormin is one of the highest grade mineral sands mines in the world and supplies ...
We collected data from different online sources and found that between 1990 and 2021, (a) sand has been mined illegally in 35 African countries and (b) 21 of …
ii DECLARATION I, Dineo Sarah Malebana declare that the dissertation titled "Sand mining, land degradation and rehabilitation in rural areas of South Africa: A case study of Mentz village" hereby submitted to the University of Limpopo, for the degree of Master of Development Studies in
The sample was composed of the general members of the community, the chief and the sand miners. For data analysis, the study used the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), IBM SPSS Statistics 25. The results indicated that sand mining causes 54.76% of the land degradation in South Africa.
In Africa, mining has a long tradition and small-scale mines have been scattered throughout the continent dating back to the African Iron Age of the second century AD up to about 1000 AD. However, large-scale mining began in Africa during the colonial era (Ashton et al. 2001; Miller 2002). Since the beginning of the twenty-first …
Sand mining is an important activity in South Africa, providing sand for construction, glass production and various other industries. However, sand mining can have significant environmental …
The practice of extracting sediments is described in the Sub-Saharan African literature in a variety of ways. The most commonly used term 'sand mining' refers to the general process of extracting sand from its original location.Mining involves the removal of sand from the earth's surface such as beaches, dunes, or quarries (open pits for mineral …
