Hillhead 2024. HERRENKNECHT SEMINAR. Producing 'green steel' in South Africa might be a distant dream, but exporting 'green iron-ore' is achievable in the medium term, says Afriforesight ...Web
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2. Description of the study area. The Bokoni platinum mine is one of the many mines in South Africa and has been in operation since 1963. The mine is situated about 80 km southeast of Polokwane City in Limpopo Province of South Africa with site coordinates of 24°17ʹ35.78"S and 29°51ʹ58.11"E (Figure 1).The mine sits on an undulating plain …Web
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Açailândia, Paris, 24 February 2022 — The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Justiça nos Trilhos released a report today on the human rights and environmental abuses associated with the iron and steel value chain originating in mines of Brazil's Carajás corridor. It sheds light on how industry giants such as Arcelor …Web
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The mining value chain is the historic bedrock of South Africa's economy. It directly contributes more than R300 billion to GDP, directly employs more than 450,000 people, and is the economic anchor of many communities around the country. Unfortunately, much of the news about South African mining in recent years has been negative.Web
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For decades, the mining industry, and workers like Vama, have contended with an unseen danger: tuberculosis—an infectious disease that is spread through the air. With 2,500-3,000 cases reported per 100,000 individuals, TB rates in the South Africa mining sector were 10 times higher than what the World Health Organization (WHO) …Web
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1 GENESIS OF IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA The period of the Iron Age extends from 200 CE to 1840 [1]. Iron tools have been crucial to economic development and industrialisation. In South Africa, the roots of the iron and steel industry date back to the fifth century CE [2], with the smelting of iron lumps in pit furnaces.Web
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Miners have continued to invest in projects in South Africa, with the largest increase identified in capital spending on assets year on year, from 18% in 2022 to 37% in 2023.". – Andries Rossouw, PwC's Africa Energy, Utilities and Resources Leader. Miners clearly continue to see value in the future and are investing in this.Web
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South Africa needs to transition from an over-reliance on coal due to global warming, resource exhaustion, price rises, a diminishing international market and the failings of the national power utility to meet growing …Web
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That said, the majority of South Africa's coal mines, thermal power stations and the currently important coal export industry are located in Mpumalanga's Coal-Belt, an area which has and will ...Web
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This study compares contrasting models of how community concerns are addressed in two mining districts: in Sweden, a welfare state setting where social development concerns are the responsibility of the state, and South Africa, a developing country, where expectations are oriented towards companies taking on significant …Web
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Africa is on the verge of a mining boom. We review the environmental threats from African mining development, including habitat alteration, infrastructure expansion, human migration, bushmeat ...Web
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Dublin, May 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "The Coal Mining Industry in South Africa 2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets's offering. Although South African coal production ...Web
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Afrimat had a transport deal with Transnet and is selling iron ore in China. The Diro mine has proven run-of-mine reserves of 10-million tons. The Black Mountain mine run by Vedanta can produce 30 000 tons of concentrate annually, 7 000 tons of copper, 50 tons of silver and 40 000 tons of lead. Almost a third of the mine's concentrate output ...Web
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Statistics South Africa found that mining output has decreased by 2.6% in March 2023 as compared with 2022 and the consistent decline in overall infrastructure stability – across both the ...Web
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1. Job Creation: Mining operations require a large workforce in South Africa, including miners, engineers, and support staff, making it a significant source of job creation. This can help reduce unemployment and boost economic activity in areas where mines are located. In recent years, South Africa has seen a rise in the number of …Web
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This has had a major impact on the mining industry, which relies heavily on electricity to power its operations. Load shedding disrupts operations, leading to production losses …Web
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v The Africa Development Forum Series was created in 2009 to focus on issues of significant relevance to Sub-Saharan Africa's social and economic develop-ment. Its aim is both to record the state of the art on a specific topic and toWeb
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Since then, the mining industry has become hugely important to the country, contributing roughly 219.5 billion South African Rand (roughly 12.8 billion U.S. …Web
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Access a live Iron Ore Mining in South Africa to 2021 dashboard for 12 months, with up-to-the-minute insights. Fuel your decision making with real-time deal …Web
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Abstract. Mining in southern Africa has a long pre-colonial history. Haematite mining in Swaziland can be traced back more than 40,000 years, iron smelting dates from 400 AD or earlier, and copper from 900 AD. The most iconic evidence for pre-colonial mining are the gold artefacts from Mapungubwe dated between 1220 and 1300 AD.Web
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South Africa - Resources, Power, Economy: South Africa is rich in a variety of minerals. In addition to diamonds and gold, the country also contains reserves of iron ore, platinum, manganese, chromium, copper, uranium, silver, beryllium, and titanium. No commercially exploitable deposits of petroleum have been found, but there are moderate quantities of …Web
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23% 16% 7.3% Contribution of SA's mining industry to GDP Why invest? Well-established infrastructure Key inputs for emerging technologies According to the Department of …Web
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In addition to assessing the impact of machinery and transport equipment on natural resources, this study examines how the mining industry affects South Africa's natural resources. The production relies heavily on natural resources (Liu et al., 2022b). In many countries, extraction, processing, and disposal of materials are important sources …Web
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South Africa's mining industry, a cornerstone of its economy, faced challenges in August 2023, with a significant decline in production and mineral sales, …Web
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PRETORIA (11 August 2023) – South Africa must redouble its efforts to tackle the crude legacy of pre-1994 environmental racism, including the abhorrent practice of intentionally situating landfills and polluting industries along racial lines and in low-income and migrant communities, a UN expert said today. "To this day, the legacy of pervasive air, water and …Web
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Recent years have seen increasing attention paid to the industrial processing of natural resources as a possible strategy for industrial development in developing countries that export primary products. The paper examines the effects of industrial development, machinery, and transport equipment on natural resources in South Africa from 1972 to …Web
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5.0 The Global Iron Mining Industry ... This colonial history has had profound impacts on the nation of South Africa. 2.1 EARLY HISTORY By the second half of the 18th century, …Web
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Background Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to …Web
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Many of South Africa's gold mining areas have experienced decline and closure since the boom period of 1950–1990, mainly because of resource depletion, increased mining costs and the health and safety risks of deep mining (Crankshaw, 2002). Jobs in gold mining dropped from about 560,000–100,000 between 1987 and 2020.Web
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A plan by Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. to develop an up-to $2 billion iron-ore mine in South Africa is facing opposition from communities who say the operation would require thousands of homes and ...Web
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With regards to PGMs, Minerals Council South Africa sets out in its "In the Spotlight" webpage on fuel cells that the global market for platinum is 7 million ozs a year, of which 6 million oz is the result of mining and in terms of which 90% is found in South Africa. The fuel cells industry therefore constitutes a key development area for ...Web
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Figure 8: Dust blowing off mine dumps can affect people and the environment. In the early days of mining, the impact of mine dumps on the environment was not known. Once people became aware of the …Web
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