The mining industry is a major contributor to the South African economy, with over US$16 billion in revenue generated in 2014. The sector employs around 176,000 people, provides significant tax revenue and supports other economic sectors. Mining has a significant impact on the economy of South Africa, contributing significantly to GDP.
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The value of that gold and its contribution to the GDP of those host countries has risen even faster. While global gold mine production has grown by 26 percent since 2010, in Africa it has risen ...
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The Washington Post via Getty Images. Illegal and unregulated artisanal gold mining on the Witwatersrand Basin, located south of South Africa's Gauteng province, is an increasing threat to ...
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For example, in Peru, where artisanal mining is also challenging, as in South Africa, Canadian mining company Anglo Gold Corp, has engaged with artisanal miners through CSR initiatives. The following statement by Anglo Gold Corp (as cited in Natural Resources Canada, 2017: 2) reflects its support of ASM as part of its CSR …
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Gauteng, South Africa. The Libanon Gold Mine, located in Gauteng, South Africa, was first discovered in 1930. It operates as an underground mining operation, with its initial production starting in 1949. The mine consists of two distinct underground workings and has a total of seven shafts. The maximum subsurface depth reaches an impressive ...
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Mponeng Gold Mine. AngloGold Ashanti 's Mponeng gold mine, located south-west of Johannesburg in South Africa, is currently the deepest mine in the world. The operating depth at Mponeng mine ranged from between 3.16km to 3.84km below the surface by the end of 2018. Ongoing expansions are expected to extend the operating depth further to …
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South Africa's gold ore reserves in the Witwatersrand Basin, a gold placer deposit, with gold hosted by conglomerates and grits, has been mined for more than 100 years but …
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The Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy reported that the number of gold miners employed in "cheap black labour" jumped from 14,000 in 1890 to 534,000 in 1986. The paper also notes that as mineral reserves run low, miners demand better working conditions, and itinerant workers move back to their …
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01: Mponeng Gold Mine – 45.81MnOz. The Mponeng gold mine is the deepest in the world from ground level and at average depths of between 2,800m and 3,400m, the descent from the surface to the bottom of the mine takes over an hour. The mine is also one of the richest in the world, with ore grades of over 8 grams per ton and …
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Mining in South Africa: the challenges and the opportunities 2 September 2016 18 • Non-gold mining sector can grow at 3-5% pa, resulting in more balanced country growth rate (double size of non-gold mining by 2028). • If mining had grown at same pace as rest of economy between 1994 and 2013, country's growth rate would have been 4% (not 3.2%)
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The mining sector's share in South Africa's economy has declined over the past 30 years, as has employment on the gold mines. Yet many new mining areas have developed. Mining growth has been driven primarily by platinum and coal, with iron ore and other metals contributing. Of South Africa's 39 'small' or 'secondary' cities, 19 have or ...
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Location, geology and mineralisation. The Tshepong gold mine is located near Welkom, 250km away from Johannesburg. The mining right for the Tshepong operations covers …
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The Witwatersrand Basin project is located approximately 15km west of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. The basin comprises a thick sequence of rocks known as Witwatersrand Supergroup, which consists of the lower West Rand Group and the upper Central Rand Group. The West Rand Group is dominated by shale with …
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AngloGold Ashanti is an independent, global gold mining company with a diverse, high-quality portfolio of operations, projects and exploration activities across nine countries on four continents. We pursue value-creating opportunities involving other minerals, where we can leverage our existing assets, shareholdings, skills and experience. As ...
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1998 – AngloGold is born. AngloGold is formed in June 1998 through the consolidation of the gold and uranium interests of Anglo American and its associated companies in South Africa, creating a single independent gold company, with shares held by Anglo American. Six years later in 2004, AngloGold merges with Ashanti Goldfields to create ...
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Waste heaps from South Africa's 130-year-old gold industry have altered the landscape around Johannesburg [Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters] ... at the foot of her neighbourhood's mining heap is greenish ...
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Harmony Gold Mining, South Africa's biggest gold producer by volume, said it will seek board approvals on deepening its flagship Mponeng mine, which buoyed a rebound to profit in the year through ...
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A corporate social responsibility framework to address artisanal mining in South Africa. Through this research, it became clear that various aspects can be considered to address the current state of artisanal gold mining in South Africa. The CSR framework was specifically developed for the South African mining industry …
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For 130 years South Africa has been exploiting its gold resources in Johannesburg. But at what cost? 278 abandoned mines and 200 mining dumps, that contain about 6 billion tons of waste, exist in Johannesburg. For every single gram of gold extracted, 200 kg of waste are produced. Inside the city, hills composed of sand debris …
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In 2013, mining companies produced 562,000 times as much waste as gold, according to the South African Chamber of Mines. A decade before, that same ratio was less than half as large, at 212,000 to …
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In 1975, South Africa was responsible for producing 40% of the gold ever mined. By 2010, however, China affirmed its status as the world's largest gold producer with production of 324 tonnes of gold, followed by Australia (222.8 tonnes), and South Africa with 219.8 tonnes. Today, South Africa produces only 4.2% of the world's gold.
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I. Opportunity. Africa is a major source of global gold, generating at least 870 metric tons of the precious metal – a quarter of worldwide output – in 2021. Whereas South Africa was the dominant gold producer for much of the 20th century, today gold mining is growing across the continent.
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Coal mining in South Africa began around the same time as gold mining and is one of the country's most valuable commodities, accounting for 26 percent of mineral mining revenue in 2023.
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On 14 September 1886, the first large mining company on the Reef, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company, was formed with a total nominal capital of £3,063,000. The first crushing battery, consisting of five stamps, had been erected on the Reef in 1885 to service the Struben's excavations on the lower West Rand reef, but this was a small ...
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The South African mining industry has consistently increased the size of its workforce, from 406,994 in 2001 to 453,543 in 2018. This has led to a parallel increase in the tax paid by mining companies to the national government, from $1.21bn in 2010 to $1.56bn in 2018, according to the country's Minerals Council.
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1. Anglo-American South Africa (Johannesburg) 2. BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa Ltd (Mpumalanga) 3. Rio Tinto (on) 4. Kumba Iron Ore Ltd …
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A few years ago, a mining company was considering reopening an old mine shaft in Welkom, a city in South Africa's interior. Welkom was once the center of the world's richest goldfields.
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The Cullinan Diamond Mine is one of the world's most celebrated diamond mines and the source of the two largest diamonds in the British Crown Jewels. ... At Petra's South African operations we offer both engineering and metallurgy learnerships. Of our 124 learners in FY 2023 (FY 2022: 88), 34% were women. ...
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