Gold Mining Industry in 2024: Growth, Rising Costs, and …
Despite the overall increase in production, the gold mining industry has faced significant cost pressures. By the end of 2023, the average all-in sustaining costs (AISC) had reached a record-high of $1,342 per ounce.
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South Africa: The Prospects of Gold and Platinum
Unlike platinum, South Africa does not control that much of the world's supply of gold, so higher production costs could discourage gold mining companies from investing in South Africa. In fact, AngloGold Ashanti, the world's third-largest producer of gold, operates in 10 different countries, including South Africa, and is trying to diversify ...
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Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy
Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy: The Struggle for the Gold Mines' Labour Supply, 1890-1920: Author: Alan H. Jeeves: Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1985: ISBN: 0773560920, 9780773560925: Length: 256 pages: Subjects
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Trends in productivity in the South African gold mining …
Profit margins are being squeezed by rising costs and decreasing commodity prices, while labour productivity is greatly affected by intermittent labour unrest. This paper analyses how the South …
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Trends in productivity in the South African gold mining …
Fine and Rustomjee (2018) posit that South Africa has been a leading global supplier of minerals and mineral products for a long time. Neingo and Tholana (2016) aver that the mining industry in ...
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List of Problems Facing Gold Mining in South Africa
South Africa has been a significant gold producer for many years, but its gold reserves are declining rapidly. Gold mining companies are finding it increasingly difficult to discover new deposits of gold, and many are turning to other metals to maintain their profitability. 3. Labor Issues. Labor issues are a significant challenge for the gold ...
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South African Mining 2024 Outlook: Navigating Challenges …
Additional hurdles facing the South African mining industry include elevated levels of criminal activity, illegal mining, soaring labour costs, surging community activism demanding services that should be provided by the government, complex commercial contracts, and bureaucratic inefficiencies.
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'Will I come back dead?' Human costs of South …
More than 50 people have died in the country's mines in 2018, roughly the same number as this time last year. While annual death tolls are far lower than the 615 in recorded in 1993 — the last ...
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Challenges Facing the South African Gold Mining Industry
The mining industry remains a major contributor to the economy of South Africa. According to data from the Department of Minerals and Energy of South Africa, the sector contributed 7.1 % to gross domestic product in 2003, of which gold was a key contributor in value terms.
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Rising gold mining costs Q1'21| Gold Focus
Costs in the gold mining industry increased for the second consecutive quarter in Q1'21, with the global average All-in Sustaining Cost (AISC) up by 5% q-o-q to US$1,048/oz, reaching its highest level since Q2'13. …
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The centrality of labor time in South African gold mining since 1886
– the portion of the working day required to cover all labor costs – and surplus labor time – ... working time arrangements over the course of gold mining in South Africa. Part two uses a .
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Tragedy in the depths: 78 dead, 246 rescued in South Africa…
At least 78 miners died while 246 were rescued from an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa. The miners, many undocumented migrants from neighboring countries, were trapped underground for months after police cut off their food and water supplies in a controversial crackdown on illegal mining. Authorities removed a pulley system used to deliver …
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In-Depth Analysis of South African Gold Mining Industry
With gold prices fluctuating, the dynamics of labor, and ongoing technological advancements, the narrative of South African gold mines is not merely that of extraction—it's a story of resilience, …
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Gold Fields South Deep Gold Mine
South Deep Gold Mine is a Gold Fields operation in South Africa. ... A Social and Labour Plan (SLP) is a document that sets out the commitments a mining company makes to its employees and impacted communities and how and when these objectives will be achieved. Every company is required by law – in this case Regulation 42 of the Minerals and ...
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Depopulating the compounds: Migrant labor and mine housing in South Africa
Production and profit in the South African gold mining industry have long been based upon the employment of cheap black migrant labor. The central institution in the migratory labor system is the compound or hostel. ... monthly mortgage payments, property taxes, and maintenance costs. The mining companies expect the South African state to ...
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A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa
Gold mining employment in South Africa is shrinking. Gold mining employment fell from approximately 475 000 in 1990 to 200 000 in 2002 to 160 000 in 2009 [28, 29]. This is accompanied by high ...
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Trends in productivity in the South African gold …
gold mining sector, competitiveness, productivity, industry cost curve, labour availability, labour utilization. ... Gold mining in South Africa started more than a century ago
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Gold Mining Costs and Market Outlook Q2 2024: Overview …
Abstract In Q2 2024, gold mining companies experienced a continued rise in all-in sustaining costs (AISC), reaching $1,388 per ounce, driven by inflationary pressures on labor, royalties, and ...
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Gold Cost Curves
Gold Cost Curves In 2017, the total Rand cash operating costs and all-in sustainable costs per ounce of gold produced from South African gold mines have risen by 9% and 8% year-on-year respectively, primarily as a result of increased labour and electricity costs as well as …
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Mining Sector Wages in South Africa
2.2 Industrial Relations in South Africa 8 2.3 Labour Laws in South Africa 10 ... 3.1 Worker Remuneration as a Percentage of Total Company Costs 17 3.2 Mining Wages in South Africa: A Sectoral Comparison 21 4. CONCLUSION 29 5. REFERENCES 31 6. APPENDIX: FIGURES AND TABLES 33 CONTENTS. 1. Background and Context 1
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The Decline of South African Gold Mining
A recent GFMS gold survey puts South Africa at the highest end of the cost scale among gold producers, but the country's gold mines remain important. In 2009, South Africa's gold mining industry earned about $6.35 billion in foreign exchange making it the country's second largest exporter behind platinum group-metals at about $7.6 billion.
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Africa Gold Advisory
Executive Summary[1] The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, Labor, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are issuing this Advisory in light of increasingly concerning reporting related to the role of illicit actors in the gold trade, including the Wagner Group, to (i) highlight the opportunities and …
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AfricaBib | Labour in the South African gold mining …
Title: Labour in the South African gold mining industry, 1886-1914: Authors: Richardson, P. Van-Helten, J.J. Book title: Industrialisation and social change in South Africa; African class formation, culture, and consciousness, 1870-1930
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Gold miners crippled by costs risk losing out on bullion's …
Analysts had high hopes for the industry, with gold among the best-performing commodities this year, surging more than 30% on the outlook for lower interest rates and geopolitical turmoil.
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How to profit from low-grade gold mines
Along with a low strip ratio, the other factors helping Atlantic Gold control costs are: the mine's close proximity to labor, suppliers and the airport; a 1.5 g/t grade; and ease of gold recovery.
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Economic Impacts of Gold Production in South Africa
Gold mining in South Africa is a labor intensive industry, employing millions of semi-skilled and unskilled labor. Immigration lowers local real wages enabling the profit seeking mining companies to increase supply. ... This study addresses all these issues. A rising labor cost reduces labor input in gold mining, but inelasticity implies a ...
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The crisis in South African gold mining
Rising costs, falling ore grades and a stagnant gold price are steadily eroding the economic viability of gold mining in South Africa. This paper explores the major economic dynamics behind the profit squeeze. ... It is interesting to note that real labor costs fell during 1981-88 whereas other real costs remained stagnant. In commenting on the ...
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Why Is South African Gold Mining Struggling?
Amidst the economic challenges facing South African gold mining operations, labour exodus, profit-sharing agreements, and the impact of HIV/AIDS endemic among mine workers are significant factors influencing the industry's …
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The fight against illegal gold mining in South Africa faces …
Illegal gold mining has been on the rise for the past decade in South Africa. Worsening ore grades, rising costs (as shafts have been sunk ever deeper), bouts of labour and social unrest and falling investment in new mines have all contributed to a …
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South Africa is the most costly country for gold mining
New research from UK-based consultancy GFMS shows an all-in sustaining cost of over $1000 per ounce for South Africa; well above the global average. Mining is one of the …
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