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Covid claims 749 miners lives; work-related fatalities increase, but better news in controlling diseases such as TB.

The mining sector has to be part of pragmatic discussions around the consumption of power and elimination of inefficiency and corruption within the existing system, says Mmusi Maimane. 



Alarming economic destruction is taking place across the minerals and energy sectors

In South Africa’s Johannesburg there is a scourge known as the Parktown Prawn, which is a actually a giant cricket. Reaching as long as seven centimetres (2.8 inches), the insect comes with a fearsome reputation of being hard to kill and even if successfully squashed, it leaves a black fecal matter that causes stains. Coal ...

Saudi Arabia provides updates on its mining sector transformation, as well as information and insights about the global potential for mining...

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources (MIM) participated under the brand ‘Invest Saudi’, at Mining Indaba in Cape Town last week. Led by the Minister and Vice-Minister of Mining Affairs, the Saudi delegation also included other leaders from MIM, as well as senior representati ...

Evan Pickworth interviews Andries Myburgh and Ntebaleng Sekabate, executives at ENS

Mining is probably the most vital sector to the global energy transition and the success of the much-vaunted net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 targets, but it’s currently the laggard in the process. The mining industry is largely at an inflection point insofar it knows its raw materials are the building blocks of the move from ...

The Russia and Ukraine war could be a silver lining for the coal industry, which for years has been battling attempts to shut it down in preference for

Minerals Council SA remains concerned about rail and port constraints, which it estimates resulted in an opportunity cost of R35bn for 2021, based on railed tonnages compared with Transnet’s targeted tonnages