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Despite a plethora of significant local and international challenges facing the South African diamond industry, the 2023 Kimberley International Diamond Symposium (KIDS) will focus on finding ways of planning for the future and finding solutions together, rather than fixating on the many negatives.    The symposium, which is presented by the South African Diamond Producers Organisation (Sadpo) in collaboration with the Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA), will take place from August 24 to ...

Chile's total copper production fell 0.8% in April to reach 416 200 t, government copper commission Cochilco announced on Friday. Chile is the world's top miner of the highly-conductive red metal.

More succinct licence processes are needed to attract exploration investment in South Africa,  Pearl Gray Equity and Research managing partner Steve Booyens said on Friday. “There are loads of investors in North America, London and the European Union that want to invest, but they're afraid of delay costs, opportunity costs and poor governance,” said Booyens, who spoke to Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)

South Africans can see and feel the devastating effects of daily power cuts on their lives and livelihoods. The country’s literacy crisis, by contrast, is far less visible but its impacts are likely to be even more devastating if not addressed. The 2021 Progress in International Reading and Literacy Study shows that the percentage of Grade 4 learners, children aged either nine or ten years old, who cannot read for meaning in any language has increase to over 81%. In 2016, the figure stood at 78%.

Lapa South-West will be developed through three wells, connected to the existing Lapa floating production storage and offloading facility.