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Innovative technology solutions for the struggling mining sector will be the focus of a new unit at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), which brings together various disciplines under former School of Mining Engineering head Professor Fred Cawood. Read More

There are significant opportunities for young entrepreneurs to enter the local mining industry, particularly with a number of senior miners exiting their existing assets owing to depressed commodity prices and general business challenges, Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) deputy director-general Joel Raphela told delegates at the 2016 Youth in Mining, Procurement and Transformation Summit, in Johannesburg, on Tuesday. Read More

In a dark, smoke-filled mine shaft, a group of South African rescue trainees heave and gasp after crawling through a narrow steel pipe — but commands shouted by an instructor urge them onwards. Read More

These men are preparing for their test at South Africa’s Mines Rescue Services (MRS), an elite unit dedicated to saving lives in a country with the deepest mines in the world. Read More

Mining Weekly interviews Ambrose Vusumuzi Richard Mabena, Senior executive: transformation and stakeholder relations, Chamber of Mines of South Africa Read More

The government and the mining industry had reached agreement on most of the sticking points in the new draft Mining Charter and would now deal with the "nitty-gritty", Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said on Wednesday. Read More

The mining industry’s journey has lasted more than 130 years so far. It has been mostly bleak, caught in violent storms. It has mostly moved forwards, sometimes backwards, sometimes marching in directions it should never have taken. Read More

Mining lawyer Hulme Scholes and his firm Malan Scholes Inc have failed in their attempt to have the Chamber of Mines’s legal challenge around empowerment clauses in the Mining Charter joined with their action to have the document declared invalid. Read More

Workers’ Day, May 1 or May Day, (celebrated today, May 2) provides us all with a time to reflect. To reflect not just on the more obvious roles of the 6.6 million workers in the formal sector of the South African economy and of the 450,000 in the mining sector alone, but also on the contributions that these often unsung individuals have made to our country, to our people and to our mining industry on which so much of our economy and welfare depends. Read More

After waiting more than a month, the Chamber of Mines has instructed its lawyers to approach the high court to find out about the status of its application for a declaratory order around the ownership clauses in the Mining Charter. Read More