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When considering the challenges involved in junior mining companies living up to increasingly stringent environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements and reporting standards, mining and environmental law firm Malan Scholes director Hulmes Scholes has noted that ESG is just a new term for reporting what mining companies already do. As such, junior miners need not be intimidated by it, he told delegates attending the Junior Indaba, in Johannesburg, on May 21.

The qualification and quantification of environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and uncertainties across the mining lifecycle continue to gain more prominence and relevance in the business world. In a panel discussion at the Mining Indaba earlier this year, led by Dr Eric Lilford and panelist SSC Group founder Fred Arendse discussed ESG issues affecting mining.

Fred Arendse, CEO at Siyakhula Sonke Empowerment Corporation, Group joins CNBC Africa for more.

Six years after going into business rescue, the future of the mine must now be decided by the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Former Lily and Barbrook gold mine employees in Mpumalanga were given some festive relief this week when a company that has been struggling to buy and re-open the mines gave them food parcels.