Mining Towns South Africa

Mining companies in South Africa are a significant source of foreign exchange and employment. The country has many mineral reserves, and exploiting them is key to its …

The old mining town of Barberton is nestled along South Africa's 10th World Heritage Site, the Makhonjwa Mountains in the De Kaap Valley of Mpumalanga, in South Africa. Its lush landscape of jacaranda and indigenous trees once …

The legislative system that provides for the socio-economic development of mining communities in South Africa has been under significant scrutiny in recent times. Various instances of conflict ...

From the world's largest hand-dug mine to strike action with fatal violence on both sides, South Africa's mining industry has been one of the country's most influential for over a hundred years.

With a gold ore reserve base of 896 thousand ounces (koz) and an annual production rate of 80,763oz, the Doornkop gold mine in South Africa's Gauteng Province has an operational lifespan expected to last until 2036. The single-shaft operation is operated by Harmony Gold and mines to a depth of 2,000m. Located on the northwestern rim of the ...

Mining has played a key role in the growth of many towns in South Africa. This growth has been accompanied by a proliferation of informal settlements, by pressure to provide basic services and by institutional pressures in local government to support mining. Fragile municipal finance, changing social attributes, the pressures of shift-work on mineworkers, the impact on the …

Small towns serving as hosts to large mines face environmental impact challenges as mining induced urbanization affects the environment and ecosystems of host towns negatively (Alam, 2010). Although international studies have mentioned the effects of urbanization and mining, this is not the case in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

Mining towns and migration: Comparing three South African cases Anmar Pretorius* and Derick Blaauw School of Economic Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Introduction: The South African economy has a long history of mining exploration. The first mining operations were recorded in 1852. Literature has

It uses South Africa as a case study and identifies, maps and classifies all 84 cities, towns and village clusters that host large-scale mines of the 17 major commodities. The paper proposes a quantitative methodology for classifying mining host communities that can be used in any country with a significant large-scale mining industry.

The body of work on mining cities globally is growing. Woodworth (2016) notes that mining cities' dynamics are quite distinct and need special attention. Assessments of mining towns and cities are multiplying in China (Jiaoa et al., 2020; Qian et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2016; Yu et al., 2008), Australia (Tonts et al., 2012) and South Africa (Cole & Broadhurst, 2020).

Economic Sustainability of Small Mining Towns: A Case Study in South Africa Angelien Meggersee1 and Sevias Guvuriro1 Abstract Small mining towns are often single-industry towns that turn to ghost towns or face negative socio-economic impacts upon mine closure. This study qualitatively explores the roles that mining companies and other key ...

Mining communities considered as part of the study included towns, townships, or rural and informal settlements around the mines as is common in the South African landscape. In terms of its contribution, the study attempts to determine how local South Africans perceive the impacts of mining companies in their community in terms of employment ...

The most direct government response to housing miners in South Africa came when government introduced the Strategy for the Revitalisation of Mining Towns (Tshangana, 2015). This strategy largely focused on improving the housing conditions …

READ ALSO: List of the 15 biggest mining companies in South Africa. Briefly.co.za recently published a list of the biggest mining companies in South Africa. Many global mining companies have roots in the country. The …

Mining towns become ghost towns and immense (externalized) environmental and social costs follow. Among the costs are hundreds of thousands of sick mine workers who now become a health ... However, mining and property law in South Africa evolved with large scale, highly concentrated industrial mining. With the decline of industrial mining ...

Currently there are 561 mines in South Africa, all of them listed on Africa Mining IQ. South Africa is a mineral-rich country and listed as the largest producers of platinum (1st), coal (3rd), gold (6th) and diamonds (7th). South Africa's mineral profile is large and diverse, with many opportunities for international and local investors. ...

By the end of 2011, South Africa's mining industry was the largest contributor to economic transformation, with broad-based black economic empowerment deals worth R150-billion completed. A A bout the author. Shamin Chibba has 13 years of writing experience, including three years as an editor.

However, South African mines have normalised most mining towns, for which they received support from government and the labour unions (Marais et al., 2018a, 2018b). Normalisation has had three main consequences in South Africa: local governance, collaborative planning between the mines and the municipalities, and the privatisation of mine ...

We assessed the pressure that mining has placed on 19 small mining cities in South Africa, referring to the boomtown literature, a set of dependencies identified by …

A Long and Complex History: Mining in South Africa. The first mine constructed in what is now South Africa began operations in 1852, a copper project that would form the cornerstone of the town of Springbokfontein, today Springbok, in the Northern Cape province.

The coal industry in Mpumalanga accounts for 87% of South Africa's total coal production (Cole et al., 2023), approximately 86% of coal industry employment (see discussion below), and 53 out of ...

This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa, using concepts from new institutional economics and evolutionary governance theory. Mine closures present a major challenge to the mining industry and governments, with this being particularly noticeable in the Global South. This book argues that …

Historically, many mining companies in South Africa housed their white workforce in towns established and managed by the company and their black workforce in single- hostels or compounds.

Mining in the town began in the 1850s and export ore was taken to Port Nolloth via train around 1876. The mine closed during the copper slump of 1919, but reopened in 1937. Today, it is home to the Okiep Copper Company and is the region's largest copper-mining town. ... ©2024 South Africa Online (Pty) Ltd. SouthAfrica.co.za. All Rights ...

mining towns, migration, South Africa, migration patterns, mine workers. 1. Introduction and aim. The South African economy has a long history of mining exploration. The first mining.

1 Minerals to Metals Initiative, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; 2 Future Water Institute, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; There is a significant role for the mining and minerals industry to play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals …

Introduction South Africa has had an extraordinarily heavy reliance on coal to fuel its economy, and it is one of the highest carbon dioxide emitters per capita globally.

A consequence of the history of the SAMI is that most South African mining towns maintain poor social and economic conditions, such as poverty, unemployment, bad housing and infrastructure, prostitution, poor health, and a high influx of single migrant labourers (Cronjé & Chenga, 2009). Housing currently available to mine

Despite the management changes, the problem of mining towns is a double-edged sword: these places struggle to cope when a mine opens and are severely affected when it closes. The shift to public governance and management adds to the complexity. ... South Africa is the G20 country with the largest dependence on coal for energy. Globally, the ...

South Africa's mining towns were established by mining companies mostly after World War II. The workforce lived in company-owned or privately-owned houses, or high-density compounds. Since the demise of apartheid, South African government policy for these towns has promoted integrated mining communities and homeownership. The government's ...