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MEMSA is a manufacturing industry cluster organisation We operate nationally and have members across South Africa With the mining equipment industry being concentrated in Gauteng our offices are located in the Mining Precinct in Johannesburg a hub for mining

Mining law is also affected by the common law of South Africa derived from Roman law principles through Roman Dutch law These principles are often described and enunciated in case law which case law also places judicial interpretation upon legislation such as the MPRDA The law of delict is also relevant in a mining law context For

Analysis Some of the most profitable South African mines are situated in the areas of the country that are home to traditional communities and are governed in terms of customary law

GCR Global Competition Review is the worlds leading antitrust and competition law journal and news service GCR provides breaking news daily updates and indepth monthly features covering antitrust and competition enforcement in countries around the world GCR also features guest commentary and articles from the worlds leading competition law and antitrust practitioners

In South Africa it is illegal to be in possession of unwrought precious metal ore platinum group metals PGMs goldbearing material and rough diamonds without the required statutory authorisation Illegal mining and organised crime are interrelated Very often illegal mining is spearheaded by globally connected criminal syndicates

During the 1970s and 1980s South Africa was undoubtedly the world leader in most aspects of mining research and the research output was prodigious When I had the privilege of spending six months of sabbatical leave working at COMRO in 1981 there were nearly 700 employees with three quarters of them being active researchers

Mining Law The first formal mining law introduced longoverdue safety measures and the first explicit industrial colour bar This stipulated that no African Asian or Coloured might prepare charges load drill holes or set fire to fuses Simons Simons 1969 55

The mining industry in South Africa is one of the most highly regulated and complex industries which require compliance to a number of laws and regulations inter alia and the most significant of which is the Constitution the Mining Charter and the Companies Act

Nov 22 2018 Environmental activists in South Africa have won a landmark legal victory after the high court ordered the government to get prior community consent before granting mining rights

When I heard that Japan is opening its doors to gold exploration I got thinking about how wonderful it would be right now if South Africa was still the biggest gold producer in the world Gold

South African Law Reform Commission Act 1973 Act 19 of 1973 It provides for the establishment of the South African Law Reform Commission Provision is also made for the constitution objects powers and duties of and reports by the Commission Companies Act 1973 Act 61 of 1973 The Department only administers Chapters 14 and 15 of

The AMLA Guiding Template is a mining law drafting and reference tool that provides guidance on the potential elements of a mining law in Africas current realities It covers over 200 topics each of which clearly described followed by legislative sample provisions each of which accompanied by an annotation explaining the context issues

Mining Lawyers Law Firms Attorneys Legal Specialists in Gauteng South Africa

The collection of detailed data on each mining accident in South Africa is used for research to improve the safety of workers in South African mines The South African Mines Reportable Accidents Statistical System or SAMRASS database was established in 1988 after the Department of Mineral Resources revisited the entire system of accident

Economic activity in modernday South Africa has been centred on mining activities their ancillary services and supplies The countrys stock exchange in Johannesburg was established in 1887 a decade after the first diamonds were discovered on the banks of the Orange River and almost simultaneously with the gold rush on the worldfamous Witwatersrand

The South African government has gazetted regulations related to the current state of disaster that was announced on Sunday The regulations are effective immediately https

The mining industry in South Africa is regulated by the Department of Mineral Resources DMR The DMR is responsible for overseeing the implementation of all mining laws and regulations in South Africa There is a DMR regional office in each of the nine provinces of South Africa

Definitions For purposes of regulation 101 unless the context indicates otherwise certified means type tested batch tested or produced under an approved product certification scheme as described in South African National Standard ARP 0108 Regulatory requirements for explosion protected apparatus double protected means a combination of any two independent types of explosion

The case of Piero Foresti et al v South Africa 14 arose out of the introduction of Black Economic Empowerment BEE provisions in the South African Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 2002 BEE provisions discriminated in favor of historically disadvantaged persons by requiring the compulsory divestiture of equity by the mining

Diamond mining in South Africa The underground mining and recovery of diamonds continues to this day in the vicinity of Kimberley the site of the early main discoveries in the 19 th century It is however on limited scale with a major focus on reprocessing old tailings dumps to recover diamonds left behind by older recovery processes

While apartheid in South Africa was formalized in law in the late 1940s the seeds for its creation were established years beforehand The mining industry especially spurred the creation of laws and practices in South Africa which progressively disenfranchised the countrys indigenous black peoples At the behest of the

Nov 21 2017 South Africas parliament will miss a December target to pass changes to mineral resource laws seen as key for greater investor certainty a senior parliamentary official said on Tuesday

Mining is an important industry in South Africa but it is also an industry with a damaging impact Mining often pollutes the water air and soil and can disrupt farming activities and community life Communities throughout South Africa struggle to defend their rights to their land to

Feb 16 2018 Globally mining companies are eyeing a new source of mineral resources the seabed The UNs International Seabed Authority ISA said it aimed to finalise draft regulations covering deepsea mining by the end of 2017 And African countries will want to ensure that they have a say in benefiting from the new gold rush

The Mining Qualifications Authority will advise the Minister of Minerals and Energy on education and training policy in the mining industry in line with the Mine Health and Safety Act of 1996 and the South African Qualification Act of 1995

The current turbulence in the mining industry in South Africa has its roots in several different factors First the fall in global demand for platinum and other minerals due to recession second the consequences of the Marikana disaster in destabilising labour relations and third the structural character of our mining industry A great deal has been written about the first two factors so

Owner versus contract miner a South African update In the underground mining environment contract mining often offers a significant advantage in being able to achieve high advance rates generally higher than owneroperated Advance rates in current owneroperated mining in South Africa are of the order of 60100 mmonth Australian

Jun 04 2020 By Mark Heywood South Africas first case of COVID19 was confirmed on March 5 th days later on March 15 th 2020 the government utilized the Disaster Management Act 2002 to declare a State of National Disaster Under this Act the government set up a National Command Council NCC made up of Cabinet Ministers and restricted certain rights necessary to prevent SARS

Mar 26 2019 Flaws in mining royalties in South Africa revealed Since 2004 law in South Africa has decreed that mineral and petroleum resources belong to the people of South Africa and the state must act as a custodian of these resources In partnership with the Open Society Foundation Corruption Watch embarked on a project to examine the history

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2017 was another tempestuous year for the South African Mining and Natural Resources Sector The sector was disrupted by a range of changes and uncertainties including the publication of the Reviewed BroadBased Black Economic Empowerment Charter for the South African Mining and Minerals Industry 2016 on 15 June 2017 Mining Charter 3 the proposed moratorium on applications for new mining

Sep 07 2017 Amendments to South Africas mineral resources law are expected to be passed by December and provide greater investor certainty mines minister Mosebenzi Zwane told a