The South African mining industry

From: Engineering and Mining Journal | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Fundamental Changes as Companies Merge, Metamorphose, and Cast Their Eyes Beyond the Limpopo - and Further Still

The South African mining industry is gradually coming out of isolation. After almost a century of undisputed leadership of the world's gold mining industry, the economic realities of the sinking gold price at a time of increasing production costs due to deeper and deeper levels of mining have finally forced the mining houses in South Africa to implement dramatic changes in their organization, structure, and traditions. The macro-economic repercussions of continued downscaling in ...

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