Southern Africa
Mining Elites in Africa 2021
Mining Review Africa is proud to present to you the latest edition of its annual publication – Mining Elites in Africa 2021 – which recognises the leaders and projects truly making a difference in the African mining sector.
Health and safety
Is drinking responsibly a challenge to tackle with SA’s youngsters?
Employers need to ensure that younger employees are not arriving at work still intoxicated from the night before.
Health and safety
Global expansion as interest in Booyco PDS grows
Having recently made export development a strategic imperative, Booyco is seeing enthusiastic uptake of its home-grown technologies.
Health and safety
ICMM publishes 2020 safety performance data of members
ICMM members have an commitment to the health and safety and are working to eliminate fatalities, towards a goal of zero harm.
International
Mining firms with higher ESG ratings outperform the market, says PwC
Mining companies with higher ESG ratings outperformed the broader market during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis, delivering 34% average total shareholder return over the past three years — ten percentage points higher than the general market index.
Health and safety
Mining organisations urge employees to get vaccinated
55 Mining sites have applied to register as primary vaccination sites, and a further 76 sites as secondary sites.
Health and safety
South Africa braces for its third wave of COVID-19
Data published by the South African DoH indicates that there has been a 17% increase in hospitalisations compared to the seven days prior.
Health and safety
Team Europe launches new healthcare financing platform in Africa
The SHIRA financing platform will enable political and development finance partners to strengthen health security and resilience in Africa.
Health and safety
Opinion: Rising ‘sober curious’ movement can influence alcohol consumption
There is an emerging trend with more young adults choosing to be more mindful of what they consume, including alcohol.
Gold
Emesent and Datamine partner to enable geotechnical structure mapping
This is a solution for the industry by collecting information from inaccessible areas, providing a new data source for mapping and analysis.
Health and safety
With laws getting stricter – enforcement is top of mind
Much like the public smoking laws people will have to accept that excessive consumption in public places is not acceptable.
