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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?…