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This list of mines in South Africa is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
Mining in South Africa was once the main driving force [1] behind the history and development of Africa's most advanced and richest economy. [2] Large-scale and profitable mining started with the discovery of a diamond on the banks of the Orange River in 1867 by Erasmus Jacobs and the subsequent discovery of the Kimberley pipes a few years later.
The Mineral and petroleum resources development act 28 of 2002 is the primary legislation guiding the mining sector in South Africa. The Act deems South Africa's mineral resources as the common heritage of all South Africans with the State as a custodian. The state, as custodian, is required to grant mining licences and oversee closures and ...
According to SAFTU, South Africa harbors up to 100,000 artisanal miners, known locally as “zama zamas” with most of the minerals derived from artisanal mining “sold to the black market, and ...
It was considered the largest hand-dug excavation on earth. By 2005, however, it was reported that a researcher had re-examined mine records and found that the hand-dug portions of the Jagersfontein and Bultfontein diamond mines, also in South Africa, may have been deeper and/or larger in excavated volume. [2]
A surge in palladium prices has thrown struggling South African mining companies a lifeline. Russia's Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel), the world's biggest palladium producer, meanwhile, has emerged as ...
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a mainly mining industry related trade union, an organisation of workers with common goals through organised labour, in South Africa. With a membership of 300,000 as of 2014, it is the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an abandoned shaft to face arrest. South Africa is trying to starve 4,000 ...