Agreement on Covid-19 vaccination critical before gold, coal wage negotiations
WHILE Covid-19 is destroying lives and livelihoods, a legal debate is developing about whether the mining sector could make vaccination compulsory.
For instance, there is...
SA mining firms, Govt. and unions will not drop the ball...
TO misquote Mark Twain, reports of supposed anti-vaxxer sentiment in mining have been greatly exaggerated, without sound knowledge or any discernable research.
More than any...
Miners need to get smarter with projects or risk making a...
THE evaluation and planning of new mining projects is being complicated by increased volatility in commodity prices. Much of this volatility is linked to...
African governments need to act together on energy transition or risk...
AS the global market continues to pivot toward a low-carbon economy, African governments can no longer afford to ignore the energy transition. The shifting...
7 things SA’s Govt can do to encourage mineral exploration and...
ONCE the greatest mining country on earth, South Africa now attracts less than 1% of annual global mineral exploration spend. Ongoing mineral exploration is...
South Africa’s energy storage opportunity lies in the value chain
IN a year when African economies are battling to stay on course due to a global pandemic, it has become urgent for South Africa...
Gender diversity is about hard-wiring the mining industry
THE South African mining industry matters as it touches millions of lives directly and indirectly. Despite its current structural decline, it does have the...
Mining faces an historic reckoning; the time is now for leaders...
IT is not easy to be a mining executive these days, faced with a global virus pandemic, an economy in recession, a climate crisis...
ANC will be a battleground over policy and prosecutions in 2021
A TOUGH political and economic year lies ahead. Perhaps in the forefront of the questions is how the balance of power between the state...
Trajectory of ‘progressive’ Charter changes will keep foreign investors wary of...
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...