Aside from reviewing and highlighting South Africa's gold mining history, this chapter considers issues of vital importance that enabled South Africa to attain its economic preeminence in the gold mining sector. The western support for apartheid South Africa has long been viewed as being based largely on political motives—that South …
اقرأ المزيدDeep in the heart of AngloGold Ashanti's South African gold mines, there are plans afoot to catapult the African nation back to the top of the global gold mining industry. Rowan Watt-Pringle spoke to Mike MacFarlane, AngloGold executive vice president for business strategy, about how raise bore drilling (RBD) and other projects …
اقرأ المزيدSouth Africa's overall mining profits slipped by more than $5 billion in the last financial year. A new report says the country's once-dominant gold production industry might have less than 30 years of viability without renewed investment.
اقرأ المزيدThis chapter provides an overview of deep-level gold and platinum mining in South Africa, highlighting the status quo of the industry and some of the associated challenges and explains how applied in-mine geophysics can play a key role in addressing some of these challenges.
اقرأ المزيدSouth Africa - Diamonds, Gold, Imperialism: South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the South African War ended. Midway between these dates, in 1886, the world's largest goldfields were discovered on the Witwatersrand.
اقرأ المزيدAfrican Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is a leading South African diversified mining and minerals company with operations in South Africa and Malaysia. ARM mines and beneficiates iron ore, manganese ore, chrome ore, platinum group metals (PGMs), nickel and coal and also has a strategic investment in gold through Harmony Gold Mining …
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