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Resources Watch

Resources Watch

31st October 2019

     

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Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry.

 

This week:

South Africa to test market for emergency power ‘gap fillers’ as IRP is finalized

And, SA moves to give new impetus to exploration, following years of stagnation

 

South Africa will release a request for information in the coming weeks to test the market for solutions to close an immediate electricity supply gap of between 2 000 MW and 3 000 MW.

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe:

 

The absence of new mining projects, owing to limited exploration, continues to weigh on the future sustainability of South Africa’s once thriving mining sector, which once captured a larger share of major mining budgets.

 

Mandela Mining Precinct co-director Alastair Macfarlane:

 

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