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South Africa's production of chromium accounted for 100% of the world's total production in 2005, and consisted of 7,490,000 metric tons (7,370,000 long tons; 8,260,000 short tons) of material. [24] South Africa holds approximately three-quarters of the world's viable chromite ore resources.
A school of mines (or mining school) is an engineering school, often established in the 18th and 19th centuries, that originally focused on mining engineering and applied science. Most have been integrated within larger constructs such as mineral engineering , some no longer focusing primarily on mining subjects, while retaining the name.
The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is a professional organisation for the mining and metallurgical industry in southern Africa. [1]
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.
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).
The Minerals Council South Africa is a South African mining-industry employer organisation. Its members include famous South African mining houses such as Anglo American, De Beers, Gold Fields and Harmony. [1] In its current form, it was founded in 1968 as the Chamber of Mines, a South African wide organization.
South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...
The establishment of a Mining Department at the Bulawayo Technical School was a result of the deliberations of a special committee appointed by the Minister of Mines. The committee was mandated ‘to consider the best means of affording technical education and practical training for youths who wished to enter the Mining Industry.’