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Paul Miller
Govt’s minerals exploration target is a policy fever dream
STATS SA’s first quarter 2025 GDP data quietly confirms South Africa’s ongoing collapse as a global exploration destination. Real capital formation in mineral exploration in 2024…
SA has this one, final chance to win back mining investors
O nce the flywheel of South Africa’s economy, the mining sector is now in decline. Investor flight, regulatory chaos, and policy failures are driving capital elsewhere —leaving…
Minerals Council members guilty of uneven disclosure
IS the South African mining industry withdrawing from public engagement? There was a time when the vast majority of South African mining production was represented by public…
Power procurement is a project risk miners dare not get wrong
THE history of the South African mining and energy industries has been tightly intertwined for more than a century and both owe their very existence to the other. The first of…
Another nail in JSE’s flailing mining sector as RBPlat bids farewell
THE South African mining story of the year has surely been the epic tussle between Implats and Northam for RBPlats. It is all over now, barring the final delisting of RBPlats’…
Why renewable energy and mining project capital allocation are odd bedfellows
WHERE does renewable energy investment fit in to mining company capital allocation? And do global mining investors really want exposure to long-life, low-return energy assets?…
Let’s level the playing field and get ordinary investors back into the public market
“THE Report of the Committee of Investigation into the Promotion of Equal Competition for Funds in Financial Markets in South Africa” was published in September 1992 and is…
Trajectory of ‘progressive’ Charter changes will keep foreign investors wary of SA mining
DESPITE the increasingly strident efforts of Minister Mantashe and his officials to have us believe “regulatory certainty” is ubiquitous, the mining regulation landscape in South…
Is the SA Govt’s proposed new mining cadastre already a metaphoric cadaver?
THE answer to the question posed by the headline to this article is, sadly, almost certainly: ‘Yes’. Not only a metaphoric cadaver, but one reeking of corruption and…
Aquila, PAMDC imbroglio a perfect demonstration that DMR needs dramatic overhaul
IN 2007, a company called the Pan African Minerals Development Company (PAMDC) was formed with the governments of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia as equal one-third owners and…
Days of “quiet diplomacy” over as SA miners start fight back
DESPITE the steady, albeit gradual, improvement currently occurring in many sectors of the global commodities markets, the South African economy risks missing out on the growth…