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The mineral wealth of South Africa has been exploited by Homo sapiens for at least 40,000 years and has provided many and varied commodities including gold, platinum and diamonds. This chapter provides a historical perspective on minerals and mining mainly in South Africa, although it does occasionally stray across the borders …
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This study investigates the effects of coal mining on environmental sustainability in South Africa in relation to the moderating role of institutions. To achieve the study's objectives, the fully modified least square (FMOLS), dynamic least squares (DOLS), canonical cointegrating regression (CCR), Bayer-Hanck cointegration and Toda …
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ronmental eects of coal mining in South Africa in rela-tion to the mediating role of institutions. Although South Africa is one of the African continent's economic giants, its environmental attributes are unsatisfactory. South Africa, which produced CO2 emissions of 0.46GT in 2018, or 1% of all global emissions, is far and away the greatest ...
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(Boularbah et al., 2006). Increasingly, human activities threaten the water sources on which we all depend. Coal mining is one such activity. In fact, according to the Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia (2001), ... South Africa has a long history of mining and has limited natural water resources, leading to a situation where it ...
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Many of South Africa's gold mining areas have experienced decline and closure since the boom period of 1950–1990, mainly because of resource depletion, increased mining costs and the health and safety risks of deep mining (Crankshaw, 2002). Jobs in gold mining dropped from about 560,000–100,000 between 1987 and 2020.
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Practices of sand mining. In Sub-Saharan Africa, mining operations vary significantly in size, number of workers involved, and the tools and machinery used in the extraction phase (Aliu et al., 2022). Most modern large-scale productions use specialised machinery to remove sand from their desired location.
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Martinez-Fernandez et al. (2012, p. 247) define a mining city as 'one whose development is dominated by mining, a primary industry that involves extracting and processing minerals'. Our focus is on South Africa's small or intermediate cities.
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Section 3 focuses on South African mining legislation and its relationship with zama activities. Section 4 provides a brief overview of the abandoned mines in South Africa. Section 5 considers mining innovation as a technical/non-technical concept. It examines a central issue for zama miners; namely, the efficiency of the techniques and …
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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities have contributed, in most cases, to the rural development of some African countries. Practically, these activities have influenced the environmental, health and socio-economic status. In essence, there is a need to investigate how these activities fuel poverty eradication in Africa. Here, a …
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It provides insight into a developing country African context and an in-depth view of the complex ESG risks around PGM mining in South Africa. Given South Africa hosts 91% of global PGM resources, understanding and addressing these ESG risks is critical for ensuring long-term PGM supply and enabling a just energy transition.
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Using documentary evidence, the literature on how mining affects women, and the history of discrimination against black women in South Africa, we examine South African policy on women in mining and how mine closure affects them. The paper contributes towards a more nuanced understanding of the social aspects of mine closure.
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the concept and role of CSR in the mining industry of South Africa. The mining case study reviewed here demonstrates that key implementation challenges are a lack of co-ordination and alignment with the government's development plans, at both national and local level, coupled with weak monitoring and evaluation.
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Economic activity in modern-day South Africa has been centred on mining activities, their ancillary services and supplies. The country's stock exchange in Johannesburg was established in 1887, a decade after the first diamonds were discovered on the banks of the Orange River, and almost simultaneously with the gold rush on the world-famous …
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