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:
Simmers will close two Buffelsfontein gold-mine shafts;
The mining declaration is seen as a ‘very important step in right direction';
And, Rio Tinto is ‘under-invested' in Africa.

JSE-listed gold-and-uranium miner Simmer & Jack Mines has initiated the closure of two more shafts at its Buffelsfontein gold mine in North West province.

Simmer & Jack CEO Nico Schoeman

Martin Creamer interviews diversified miner Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese, who anticipates the African continent becoming the site of the British-Australian multinational's newest iron-ore growth vector.

Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese

Creamer Media TV Martin Creamer

Regulatory lawyer Peter Leon tells Mining Weekly Online's Martin Creamer that the joint mining declaration is a very important step in the right direction, with government, labour and business all being part of the joint venture.

Webber Wentzel regulatory lawyer Peter Leon

Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu

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