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        <description><![CDATA[Mining Weekly covers real-time news on mining projects across a range of minerals including gold, platinum, diamonds, copper and ferrous metals.]]></description>
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            <title>Modernisation of South African mining is an ‘urgent strategic priority’</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mining modernisation, with private and public sectors as drivers, is an urgent strategic priority for the South African economy, a study undertaken by industry leaders, researchers, government partners, and innovators from across the South African spectrum reported very forcefully this week. “We see that our competitors are investing heavily in digitisation and automation, as well as critical minerals and beneficiation.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The increasing uptake of AI in many spheres of life has also extended to geology, where it has found several applications with varying degrees of success, although there are myriad ethical, safety and environmental implications that geologists must be cognisant of. This was highlighted by speakers at the Geological Society of South Africa’s (GSSA) ‘AI in Geology’ conference, held last month.]]></description>
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            <title>The NUM concludes five-year wage agreement at Gold Fields’ South Deep mine</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the majority union at Gold Fields’s South Deep Mine, has concluded a five-year wage agreement for employees at the mine. The multiyear agreement, negotiated in collaboration with UASA, is effective from March 1, this year, to February 28, 2031.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa has an abundance of coal reserves, but the coal mining sector’s competitiveness requires an efficient logistical network to move coal from mine to market. While the industry has faced significant challenges with regard to rail reliability, infrastructure security concerns and port constraints, performance in the sector is improving and collaboration is strengthening.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite coal being a significant contributor to South Africa’s GDP and electricity generation, funding for new coal mines from commercial banks is limited in the international and local market. Rand Merchant Bank mining and resources advisory head Willie Hattingh says the general approach taken by banks is to support existing clients while retaining targets to reduce their exposure to carbon-intensive industries, including coal mining, over time.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[London-listed Neo Energy Metals’ 70%-owned South African subsidiary, Neo Uranium Resources Beisa Mine, has signed a site access and contractorship agreement with Sibanye Gold, a subsidiary of Sibanye-Stillwater, granting Neo Energy access to the Beatrix 4 Shaft mining area. This will enable Neo Energy to begin a fully funded assessment programme while regulatory transfer of the Beatrix 4 Shaft mining right continues.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Critical minerals mining company Critical Metals Corporation has announced that the Mrima Earth Consortium, in which the company is the lead party, has been shortlisted as one of three US finalists, from an initial field of seven bidders, to proceed to the final stage of the Kenyan government’s competitive tender process for the right to develop the Mrima Hill rare earth and niobium project, in Kwale county. Mrima Hill is positioned on Kenya’s southern coast with direct access to the Port of Mombasa.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[ASX- and TSX-listed Perseus Mining’s Nyanzaga gold project, in Tanzania, continues to advance towards first gold production in the first quarter of the 2027 calendar year, with construction milestones recently achieved. These include good progress on pre-stripping of the mining area, while all carbon-in-leach tanks are at full height and hydrostatic testing is under way.]]></description>
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