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    Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad at Joburg Indaba covered by Mining Weekly’s Martin Creamer. Video: Darlene Creamer.

    Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad at Joburg Indaba covered by Mining Weekly’s Martin Creamer. Video: Darlene Creamer.

    Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad (right) questioned by Joburg Indaba chairperson Bernard Swanepoel.

    20th October 2023

    By: Martin Creamer

    Creamer Media Editor

         

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    South Africa, with its incredible minerals endowment and extraordinary untapped potential, is definitely underexplored, Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad said in response to questions after virtually presenting on day two of the Joburg Indaba.

    Wanblad was responding to a question posed by Joburg Indaba chairperson Bernard Swanepoel on what Anglo can do to revive exploration in South Africa.

    “Anglo, as with many of our majors, has abandoned exploration in South Africa. I’ll point a finger and say all our major mining companies have used the opportunity to internationalise, to go to other jurisdictions, perfectly legitimately. “Have you contributed as Anglo to the fact that there has been zero exploration in South Africa, and I’m overstating, in the last 20 years?

    “Are you part of the problem and what can an Anglo do to revive exploration in South Africa?”

    Wanblad conceded that statistics show that not a lot of exploration has been done in South Africa and that Anglo has not prioritised exploration in South Africa for a while, not owing to South Africa as such but owing to prioritisation of areas most prospective for commodities being sought.

    “We also have to structurally look at the way the system is set up for exploration in South Africa. It doesn’t feel to me that exploration in South Africa is in any way incentivised, so I’m not sure that any one company is to blame for the current situation.

    “But perhaps more systemically, if we wanted exploration to occur and ultimately be able to exploit the resource base that was there, South Africa would have to set up an environment that was more accommodative of investment into exploration, which is a multi-year investment.

    The South African mining sector’s contribution to gross domestic product has fallen from 10% in 1993 to about 4.4% in 2022, the lowest it has been during this 30-year period. The country is foregoing billions of rands in output as a result of the challenging business environment. 

    Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
    Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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