Small Illegal Gold Mining In South Africa

Toxic gas leak in South Africa has killed 16 people, including …

Mining fatalities underground are also common and the South African government department responsible for mining announced recently that at least 31 illegal miners were believed to have died in a ...

Why illegal artisanal mining in South Africa is …

An illegal artisanal gold mining industry takes root. South Africa's Witwatersrand goldfields have produced more than 30% of all the gold ever mined. But in recent decades, large-scale gold ...

What Makes India a Hotspot for Smuggled African Gold

Gold from both neighbouring and African countries has poured into India for years through illicit channels. India seized smuggled gold, worth INR 49.5 crore (around 6.7 million USD) this year ...

Illegal mining threatens South Africa's economy

Illegal mining: the problem is bigger than you think. The economic toll is staggering. Illegal mining activities in South Africa cost the formal mining industry over $7 billion rand ($370 million) annually, resulting in lost mineral reserves and …

The fight against illegal gold mining in South …

Illegal gold mining has been on the rise for the past decade in South Africa. Worsening ore grades, rising costs (as shafts have been sunk ever deeper), bouts of labour and social unrest and falling investment in new mines have all …

Illicit gold markets in East and Southern Africa

Today, the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector is governed by increasingly comprehensive legal and regulatory frameworks, and is reliant on transnational supply chains that connect rural mining operations to international gold hubs. ... South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe were selected for field research, with some limited ...

CURBING ILLEGAL GOLD MINING IN BARBERTON

including in Africa and South Africa. As in many other countries, illegal gold mining is proliferating and this constitutes a major security challenge in the South African mining sector. The distinctive aspect of this study is that integrated or interface issues of commitment, capacity and co-ordination were not well considered by previous studies.

Illegal gold mines in the Sahel controlled by terrorist cells

Across Africa, small-scale gold mining is flourishing. However, in most cases, Small-scale has become a euphemism for illegal and the workers who are often referred to as informal diggers are a workforce operating in an unregulated market. ... Indicative of the continental boom in illegal gold mining were South Africa's 19 refining plant ...

A call to unshackle artisanal miners in South Africa

Artisanal mining is illegal in South Africa, as it is not provided for in primary mining legislation. The MPRDA does provide for a mining permit, which was envisioned to provide for the regulation of all artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities occurring on a sub-industrial scale.

Grenades, Drugs and Discrimination: Inside South Africa's Illegal Gold …

Illegal miners work without permission from the state. Many of them are migrants from South Africa's poorer neighbours, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Lesotho, and the men work in conditions similar ...

Mali to Dubai: artery for West Africa's booming …

Rising global gold prices have attracted significant interest in the metal's extraction from local and international investors, especially in rural small-scale mining. Mali is Africa's third biggest gold exporter, and around a third …

Illegal Gold Mining Activities in South Africa: 'Zama Zamas'

The situation in South Africa is no different, where the surge in illegal gold mining activities in many parts of the country is concerning. Illegal gold mining, or 'Zama Zamas' – a Zulu colloquial term used in South Africa, translating to 'trying your luck' – is lucrative. The rewards of this illicit activity are attractive and ...

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Dealing with the South African surge in illegal …

Why is illegal mining on the rise? Despite widespread media attention given to the dangers of illegal mining, there has been a surge in this activity. In South Africa, this stems mainly from an increase in …

Illicit Chrome Mining Economy Thriving in South Africa

South Africa has a notorious problem with illegal mining which exploits the region's large reserves of coal, gold, diamonds and other minerals. The problem is, in part, driven by rampant unemployment, which currently exceeds 30% and is concentrated in peripheral areas.

COMBATTING ILLEGAL MINING

Illegal mining Artisanal and small-scale mining In South Africa, mining and related activities are regulated by numerous statutes. Informal mining activities operating outside this legal framework constitutes illegal mining. The MPRDA provides for state custodianship of mineral resources for the benefit of all South Africans.

INTERVIEW: 'No formal gold mining in South …

The undersecretary in the mining ministry, Dr. Andu Ezbon Adde, says that there is no formal gold mining yet in South Sudan, adding that what is taking place at the moment is small-scale artisanal ...

Artisanal gold mining in South Africa is out of …

An illegal artisanal gold mining industry takes root. South Africa's Witwatersrand goldfields have produced over 30% of all the gold ever mined. But in recent decades, large-scale gold mining ...

'Illegal' gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa …

ABSTRACT This paper examines unregulated gold-mining activities prevalent at disused mines and decommissioned shafts at operating mines in post-apartheid South Africa. This kind of mining is deemed illegal by the government since it is outside the parameters of the country's main mining legislation. The author uses the concept of 'the everyday' to examine …

Illegal Gold Mining in South Africa: The Deafening Silence on the Lives

However, some of the so-called illegal mining activity also takes place at operational and functional mines in the shadows and away from the scrutiny if mine management. In a 2007 report, the Institute for Security Studies estimated that 10% of all gold mined in South Africa is stolen each year.

Illegal mining

Illegal mining has made a considerable dent in economy. The cost of illegal mining is estimated to be over R70 billion annually in gold alone and resulting in huge losses of revenue for both government and the mining sector. Importantly, these illegal activities have a negative impact on the safety and health of surrounding communities.

Addressing the rise of illegal mining in SA

Illegal mining is vaguely defined as mining operations that take place without a mining license or any legitimate authority. Artisanal and small-scale mining is defined as more formalised mining activities that involve the exploitation of minerals using basic and rudimentary methods. In South Africa, formal legal recognition of artisanal mining took place after the …

Illegal mining — a threat to Africa's future

Illegal small-scale gold and diamond miners, or "zama zamas", frequently occupy both closed and active mines in South Africa. According to the government, the practice has made a considerable dent ...

Africa's growing illegal mining: Financial drain and …

The rapid deterioration of mining situation across Africa, becoming an increasingly 'wild west' scenario of overt illegality unchallenged by weak central authorities, was predicted as far back as 2016 by South Africa's Minerals Council – but that warning has not seen any change in the dark direction that mining in South Africa or other ...

A history of mining in South Africa

M M ining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15-year-old Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africa's first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867. It kickstarted what historians call the Mineral Revolution, which made few European opportunists wealthy beyond measure, and saw hundreds of thousands of men leaving their homes to become …

South Africa's battle against illegal artisanal …

Illegal mining in South Africa presents significant economic, social, and security challenges. It's complex history, violence and crime it fosters, the implications of the recent military intervention, and insights from Al …

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Mining Sector …

and Mining, this study offers a thorough review of the evidence around Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the mining sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Whilst SGBV can be experienced by anyone, this paper predominantly explores the

Exploring strategies for management of disasters …

There is a lack of a clear academic definition of illegal mining in South Africa (Williams 2019) due to a lack of focused research on illegal mining. Furthermore, the distinction between illegal mining, artisanal mining or small-scale mining and informal mining is not well ... emergencies associated with abandoned mines and illegal gold mining ...

South Africa's Intractable Illegal Gold Mining Problem

All artisanal and most small-scale mining (ASM) is illegal in South Africa, by definition. The basic mining law, the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) of 2002, simply fails to mention artisanal mining and treats small-scale miners in the same way as large mining companies (in itself an incentive to informalisation).

COMBATTING ILLEGAL MINING

Illegal mining is becoming an increasing issue for and risk to the sustainability of the mining industry in South Africa. We have made great strides in the battle against illegal miners (or …