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The Minerals Council South Africa has launched its social and labor plan (SLP) portal where members can post their SLP documentation so it can be easily accessed by interested parties. Read More

Regulation 42 to the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act requires mining companies to submit to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy a Social and Labour Plan (SLP) as a pre-requisite for the granting of a mining right. Read More

Mining firms in South Africa’s former homelands have learnt the hard way: If you bypass communities and cut deals with tribal chiefs, protests can bring your operation to its knees. So what does the ANC-led government do? Blithely ignoring recent history, it has given chiefs the power to cut such deals. Read More

The proposed new regulations underpinning SA’s mining act will add complication and uncertainty to an industry that has cut tens of thousands of jobs, shut mines and restructured to cope with rapidly rising costs. Read More

Given that health and safety remain a key consideration for all mining houses, SA Mining recently caught up with Minerals Council South Africa spokesperson Charmane Russell to unpack the initiatives aimed at improving health and reducing fatality rates at South African mines. Read More

In the face of escalating community unrest on the eastern limb of the platinum belt, the Minerals Council and the police plan to set up a joint operations centre in the region. Data suggests the area is in a state of worsening social turmoil amid sky-high unemployment and conflict over resource control. Read More

On the first day of every month, hundreds of women descend on the centre of the small coal-mining town of Carolina. Read More

Though poverty and SA’s economic downturn are at the heart of much community unrest, industry players point, too, to more nefarious motives."It’s not just community unrest — some of this is just straight up criminal behaviour," says Assore CEO Charles Walters, in relation to relentless disruptions of the mining company’s Limpopo operations. Read More

As community unrest weighs on the bottom line of SA’s mining companies, communities themselves say they are being excluded from the benefits of their own resources. Read More

The Mandela Mining Precinct (MMP) on Tuesday unveiled the two new rock drill prototypes that are set to enhance drilling operations and reduce the exposure of operators to dangerous conditions. Read More