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:
Small diamond miners want big licence holders built in so they can grow sector together
Sustainability taking front seat at Harmony Gold
And, NSDV says Deeming could bring regulatory certainty to much-needed minerals investment
Small diamond miners want to lock arms with all stakeholders through the South African Diamond Producers’ Organisation to recover a large number of lost jobs and to realise the full potential value alluvial diamonds.
Sadpo CEO Yamkela Makupula:
Large South African gold miner Harmony Gold sees R500m/y savings from Phase 2 on-balance-sheet renewables projects.
Harmony Gold investor relations head Jared Coetzer:
The detraction of the South African investment market is the uncertainty around approval timelines and the implementation of a deeming provision could change all that by treating applications as approved after the passing of a set period of time.
NSDV Advisory Head Mark Gilbert:
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