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The Minerals Council SA will be making a submission on Friday, but has already warned that 50,000 jobs hang in the balance along with all but one of the country’s gold mines if Nersa grants Eskom that tariff increase. Read More

State-owned utility Eskom’s proposed tariff increases would cost some 150 000 direct mining jobs, all but eliminate the gold sector and, as a consequence, reduce Eskom’s mining client base by around 36%, thereby exacerbating the utility’s “death spiral”, Minerals Council South Africa chief economist Henk Langenhoven said on Wednesday. Read More

The Minerals Council is expected to tell the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) on Friday that Eskom’s proposed 15% electricity tariff hike will tip the industry into catastrophic losses and result in job layoffs rivalling the tens of thousands shed between 2006 and 2017 when tariffs increased as much.  Read More

Since its inception in October 2017, the Johannesburg Inner city Partnership's urban agriculture initiative has grown significantly by empowering agripreneurs to pursue hydroponic farming. Read More

Improved sentiment on the back of the appointment of a highly regarded Mineral Resources Minister, the publication of Mining Charter III and the subsequent consensus around it by all stakeholders after extensive consultations, and mixed global commodities demand, influenced by macroeconomic developments – primarily trade tensions between China and the US – made for a year of significant changes in the mining industry. Read More

South Africans have made waves locally and globally in sport, business and innovation, as well as in music and film. Here are a few South Africans who went for world domination and held the flag high in 2018. Read More

The best way for SA’s embattled platinum industry to save itself from prolonged difficulties is to switch focus to intensive marketing and spending on creating demand rather than trying to lower costs and mining more metal, says Anglo American Platinum CEO Chris Griffith. Read More

The mineral resources department has urged unions in the mining sector to engage in a peaceful and tolerant manner following a series of violent incidents in recent weeks that have claimed one life. Read More

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and South Deep gold mine's management have taken hardline, opposing positions with regard to retrenchments at the operation, situated in Gauteng. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa congratulates the three finalists selected at the conclusion of the first phase of the Isidingo Drill Design Challenge. The competition is aimed at instilling new, creative approaches to local innovation and design. Read More