South Africa Mining of Precious Metals and Minerals Markets Report 2018 with Profiles of 42 Companies Including De Beers Consolidated Mines & Trans Hex

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Feb 26, 2019, 11:45 ET

DUBLIN, Feb. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- 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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