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Stainful steel â Illegal mining free-for-all taints the worldâs stainless steel value chain (opens the original)
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While odourless, at least some stainless steel carries the stench of crime, environmental and community degradation and ruthless exploitation. Like diamonds and gold, the vast majority of the worldâs chrome supplies are legitimate, and the clean producers do not want to see supply chains sullied by the dirty stuff. The chrome produced from the illicit and unregulated mines and washing plants scarring South Africaâs landscape have a market, and the main one is China. Chrome ore is smelted int
Criminal chrome â A view into the void of state failure (opens the original)
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The threats are many: collapsing property values, the fouling of prime agricultural land, the siphoning and polluting of scarce water supplies, and costs for legitimate mining operations and losses for the Treasury as the profits from illicit enterprises flow to transnational organised crime syndicates. Rising from the soil like serpents with their snake-like coils, the illicit chrome-washing plants that have become a venomous presence between Rustenburg and Brits are jarringly visible from the
Slimes dam collapse raises safety and transparency issues anew (opens the original)
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The tailings dam at a mine near Brits, North West, was hiding in plain sight, unregistered and showing signs of the trouble to come. On 13 August, at precisely 5.39pm, the Inyoni tailings storage facility, part of the Dikwena Chrome plant complex at Samancorâs WCM Mine, east of Brits, burst its seams, unleashing a toxic slurry of sludge across the landscape. There were thankfully no fatalities and only one reported injury. The debris briefly forced Northam Platinumâs neighbouring Eland Mine
âThe Terminatorâ has surprising implications for SAâs platinum group metals industry (opens the original)
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Humanoid robots â if forecasts for their production and commercialisation play out â could potentially play the same role for platinum group metals demand in coming decades that the Clean Air Act did in the 1970s. And South Africaâs PGMs no longer carry the taint of apartheid and the ruthless exploitation of a Black migrant labour force that made Americaâs air cleaner. If the AI revolution triggers the âRise of the Machinesâ, South Africaâs platinum group metals (PGM) industry will
Mine mud rushes are preventable and itâs time for guidelines to do so (opens the original)
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There are many ways to die underground in a mine, but few can be as terrible as being caught in a mud rush. It is a monstrous thing to behold â a surge of ore, mud and water that engulfs and smothers all in its path as it plunges down the depths. In the wake of recent deadly mine mush accidents in Indonesia and at the Ekapa diamond mine in South Africa, the issue has been raised on the radar screens of investors and insurers, and one top expert is calling for national or global guidelines to b
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