Is South African mining’s modernisation urgency falling largely on deaf ears?

Despite South African mining ending up tenth in a ten-country global benchmarking exercise, two-thirds of the respondents who participated in a survey appear to be more intent on just doing the same things better rather than modernising meaningfully. Despite the sustainability of South African mining being under pressure, the majority of the coal, gold, uranium, platinum group metals, diamond, iron-ore, manganese, copper, and industrial minerals profile surveyed are not modernising – and even environmental considerations ended up as "a secondary dimension". (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)

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