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Mining update.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB245462
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The country's nascent mining sector is encountering both challenges and new opportunities as large-scale mining operations come in. Last month, four companies were granted…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB222240
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Opposition to mining, sometimes violent, has proved a deterrent to investment. As mineral prices, especially for copper, have increased substantially, the mining ministry hopes to…
In recent months, the government suspended SL Mining's licence pending review, while also cancelling the licences of Tonkolili Iron Ore (SL) and African Railway and Port Services…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB245798
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The disruption at Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold mines reflects wider turmoil in the gold mining sector, including a 13th consecutive month of production decline in October. Meanwhile…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB240617
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Zambian mining instability.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB233558
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This followed just a week after AMCU and miner Sibanye-Stillwater reached a wage agreement after a protracted five-month strike at the latter’s goldmines. Meanwhile, the latest…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB243451
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The timing is disastrous for the ruling ANC party, which faces elections in May with its support already crumbling, in part due to its poor performance on economic issues. Major…
However, with arbitrators ruling in favour of SL Mining, the government was left with little choice but to negotiate a deal that will see mining restart at the Marampa mine…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB261649
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The measure provoked much speculation about whether it reflected renewed resource nationalism, amid increasing geopolitical competition for access to resources such as lithium…