South Africa Mining of Precious Metals and Minerals Markets, 2018 - Focus on Gold and Uranium, Platinum and Diamonds

Dublin, Feb. 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Mining of Precious Metals and Minerals: Gold and Uranium, Platinum and Diamonds in South Africa 2018" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Mining of Precious Metals and Minerals: Gold and Uranium, Platinum, and Diamonds: Mining's contribution to the South African economy continues its long term decline. Gold's contribution to South Africa's GDP reached a peak of 16.7% in 1980, and had declined to only 1.3% in 2016.

Policy and regulatory uncertainty, including the Mining Charter, continue to weigh on the industry and hamper investment decisions. The sector remains constrained by sub-optimal commodity prices, ageing infrastructure and operational and cost challenges brought on by increasing depth of operations and declines in productivity. The stronger rand also influenced the sector in 207.

State of The Industry:

About 75% of South Africa's gold mines and two thirds of its platinum mines are unprofitable or making a small profit.South Africa nevertheless has gold reserves of 6,000 tonnes, which is more than 10% of the world total, and exported 119.6t of gold worth R65.1bn during 2017 and sold worth R17.7bn locally. The country's platinum-group metals reserves of 63,000t represent more than 90% of the world total.

The local diamond mining sector was the world's sixth largest producer in terms of volume during 2017, producing 9.7 million carats worth US$3.1bn, and exporting 9.9 million carats worth US$1.3bn. While total gold demand declined during 2017, demand for gold jewellery increased, as did demand for diamonds. Local and export sales of gold, platinum-group metals and diamonds amounted to R178.1bn during 2017, and these sectors employed 306,197 people.

Report Coverage:

This report deals with the mining of precious metals and minerals in South Africa including uranium as a by-product of gold mining, the report describes current conditions, including uncertainty in the regulatory environment, and discusses factors influencing the success of the industry. The report profiles 42 companies including De Beers Consolidated Mines and Trans Hex which recorded output increases of 23.8% and 59.5% respectively.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Introduction

2. Description Of The Industry
2.1. Industry Value Chain
2.2. Geographic Position

3. Size Of The Industry

4. State Of The Industry
4.1. Local
4.1.1. Gold
4.1.2. Uranium
4.1.3. Platinum
4.1.4. Diamonds
4.1.5. Corporate Actions
4.1.6. Regulations
4.1.7. Enterprise Development And Social Economic Development
4.2. Continental
4.2.1. Gold
4.2.2. Uranium
4.2.3. Platinum
4.2.4. Diamonds
4.3. International
4.3.1. Gold
4.3.2. Uranium
4.3.3. Platinum
4.3.4. Diamonds

5. Influencing Factors
5.1. Economic Environment
5.2. Labour
5.3. Mine Safety
5.4. Illegal Mining
5.5. Technology, Research And Development (R&D) And Innovation
5.6. Environmental Concerns
5.7. Platinum Recycling
5.8. Community Protests
5.9. Synthetic Diamonds

6. Competition
6.1. Barriers To Entry

7. Swot Analysis

8. Outlook

9. Industry Associations

10. References
10.1. Publications
10.2. Websites

Company Profiles

Mining Of Gold

• Anglogold Ashanti Ltd
• Central Rand Gold Ltd
• Drdgold Ltd
• Gold Fields Ltd
• Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd
• Lonmin Plc
• Oakbay Resources And Energy Ltd
• Orion Minerals Ltd
• Pan African Resources Plc
• Peninsula Energy Ltd
• Sibanye Gold Ltd
• Stibium Mining South Africa (Pty) Ltd
• Stonewall Resources Ltd
• Village Main Reef (Pty) Ltd
• White Rivers Exploration (Pty) Ltd

Mining Of Platinum

• African Rainbow Minerals Ltd
• Anglo American Platinum Ltd
• Atlatsa Resources Corporation
• Glencore Operations South Africa (Pty) Ltd
• Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd
• Ivanhoe Mines Ltd
• Lonmin Plc
• Mmakau Mining (Pty) Ltd
• Northam Platinum Ltd
• Orion Minerals Ltd
• Platinum Group Metals (Rsa) (Pty) Ltd
• Platmin South Africa (Pty) Ltd
• Royal Bafokeng Platinum Ltd
• Sibanye Gold Ltd
• Siyanda Resources (Pty) Ltd
• Sylvania Platinum Ltd
• Wesizwe Platinum Ltd
• Windsor Platinum Investments (Pty) Ltd

Mining Of Diamonds

• Alexkor Soc Ltd
• De Beers Consolidated Mines (Pty) Ltd
• Dmi Minerals South Africa (Pty) Ltd
• Frontier Diamonds Ltd
• Kareevlei Mining (Pty) Ltd
• Petra Diamonds Ltd
• Rockwell Diamonds Inc
• Tango Mining Ltd
• Trans Hex Groep Ltd

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