Tag Archives: Mining

Minerals Council launches Women in Mining website (MiningWeekly)

Industry body the Minerals Council South Africa has launched a dedicated website for women in mining, as part of efforts to ensure the local mining industry transforms to become a place where women lead and thrive. The council has ramped up its efforts to assist women in the industry, including those in communities, through vital aftercare services to survivors of gender-based violence. […]
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Mining companies warn of weak commodity price outlook (FT)

Some of the world’s largest mining companies have become increasingly pessimistic about a sustained rally in global commodity prices this year after an insipid recovery in China led to a drop in first-half earnings. Duncan Wanblad, chief executive of Anglo American, said on Thursday that an “enormous amount of economic pressure” was making it hard […]
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Norway to open its waters to deep-sea mining (Mining.com)

The Norwegian government outlined on Tuesday details of a plan to open its sea floor for commercial mineral exploration and extraction, targeting metals considered essential for the transition to a greener economy. The European country, whose vast oil and gas reserves have made it one of the world’s wealthiest nations, is positioning itself as a frontrunner in […]
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Sasol still awaits approval to sell cyanide business (Moneyweb)

Competition Tribunal weighing effects of selling mining industry’s only producer of ‘a critical input’ to a Czech firm. South Africa’s competition authorities still have not yet approved the 2021 sale of Sasol’s sodium cyanide business. The Competition Commission (CompCom), concerned that the sale of the country’s only producer of sodium cyanide will harm the local […]
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New GIBS whitepaper: Organisational culture, frontline supervisory engagement, and accountability, as drivers of safety behavior in a platinum mining organisation by Prinsloo & Hofmeyr

Several studies have tried to identify the antecedents to safety behaviour in the mining industry. Stemn, Bofinger, Cliff and Hassall (2019) defined safety behaviour in the mining industry as a reflection of the perceptions, values, behaviours, attitudes and values concerning safety that are shared by employees. Lee and Harrison (2000) defined safety culture as the […]
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Africa’s rising risks jeopardizing recent mining growth: report

Analysts claim Sub-Saharan Africa’s investment environment is deteriorating. GIBS Information Centre / GIBSIC‘s insight: risk and resilience – ” . . . 6th annual Global Risks and Resilience Atlas (GRRA), which features 36 threat indices used to identify emerging global risks related dangers to business in 179 countries, Maplecroft experts say 30% of the African economies […]
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