South Africa's Mining Sector: A Superpower Sitting on Its Hands

In the past eighteen months, thirteen prospecting applications have been submitted to the Department of Minerals and Petroleum Resources across a 170-kilometre stretch of KwaZulu-Natal's South Coast, eleven of them including lithium, one of the minerals most critical to the global energy transition. The trigger is SA Lithium's Highbury Mine near Umzumbe, which began development in mid-2023 and has become one of only three known lithium operations in the country.

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