Former Xstrata Alloys executive director Mike Rossouw wants mining companies to use the valuable information they have to persuade government to simplify mining policy and collaborate towards less regulation and greater implementation. In his keynote address to the Renewables & Mining Summit, in Johannesburg, last week, he exhorted miners to tell government when policy was unworkable and to end their silence on policy issues to enable the South African economy to emerge from its stagnation through transformational economic growth, predictable political transformation and social transformation.