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Investing in African Mining Indaba has and continues to serve as the most comprehensive gathering to have conversations on the change the African mining industry needs to move forward.   CDH has compiled the Doing Business in South Africa (DBSA) annual publication. The publication highlights important aspects of the law relating to the legal requirements affecting the minerals and mining industry.   The DBSA outlines the Amendment Act. The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment (MPRDA) Act 49 of 2008 (Amendment Act) was assented to by the President on 19 April 2009 but its implementation was delayed.   The Amendment Act was drafted to, among other things, align the MPRDA with the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998 (NEMA) to provide for one environmental management system, remove ambiguities, and add functions to the Regional Mining Development and Environmental Committee.   Click here https://bit.ly/47NUPJm to read more about the Amendment Act and its application in our DBSA publication. 

There's been lots of talk (some would say hype) around mineral security partnerships bringing together consumer and producer governments around mineral supply (with a focus on minerals important for the global energy transition), including at this week's #MiningIndaba. But as my Natural Resource Governance Institute colleagues Susannah Fitzgerald, Phesheya Nxumalo and Thomas Scurfield set out in this timely piece, to date many of these have been "Deals without Details." https://lnkd.in/eDGTXnjS Given their potential economic and geopolitical significance, greater scrutiny around these deals is important. NRGI has taken a first step by including the publicly available official documentation related to these new state-state mining partnerships on ResourceContracts - https://lnkd.in/e5XGRYJY  (a repository of publicly available oil, gas, and mining contracts and associated documents). But lots of work remains, both to increase transparency (no public documentation available on 22 of the 35 identified partnerships) and to analyze and accompany these partnerships as they move to the next steps of details being developed and negotiated. If these partnerships are to live up to their billing for low and middle income mineral producing countries, a wide range of stakeholders will need to be keeping an eye on how they move forward.

Really important piece of work here from Natural Resource Governance Institute. As they say, contract transparency is becoming the norm when a company signs a deal with a government in the extractive sector, so surely there is even more of a need for transparency when the agreement is between states. A great service to have a repository for these agreements and some important pointers for what the agreements should contain, including on governance and including civil society. Minerals for the energy transition - for renewables, electricity/hydrogen transmission and electrolysers for green hydrogen - are indeed 'critical' and we need robust governance and transparency around state-state agreements (in addition to state-investor agreements) Gavin Hayman Maria Cristina Mundin Ernst Müller Mark Robinson Eddie Rich Bruce Douglas Sonia Dunlop

This clear response shows that the DMRE is actively reviewing its commitment to making sure mining follows the rules. Getting a mining permit will not be easy anymore because the department wants to make sure only the right companies get these permits. This emphasises the strong dedication to the main goal of taking care of the environment under NEMA (Chapter 5). The DMRE also wants to make it clear that companies must follow the EIA rules when dealing with possible harm to the environment. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dt9Viy4m #EHS for a Better World! 🌍

Workshop focusing on small-scale mining and the law - Namibian: Workshop focusing on small-scale mining and the law  Namibian

Chantal Murdock unpacks a critical judgement which has far reaching consequences regarding the closure of mining operations in terms of Section 43 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act. #MPRDA #Mining #MineClosure #EnvironmentalLaw #RetrospectiveEffect #MineralResources #MineralPetroleumResourcesDevelopmentAct https://lnkd.in/dQfG74nH

VERDICT ON EURO SUN MINING’S EVIRONMENTAL CASE TO BE DELIVERED NOW END OCTOBER Further to the Company’s press release 3rd October, concerning the annulment of the Company’s environmental endorsement for the Rovina Valley Project, the expected 16th October verdict, has now been postponed for another two weeks. Designed to have one of the least environmental impacts globally, with no cyanide use or no wet tailings, Euro Sun Mining remains optimistic for a favourable outcome ensuring Romanian job creation and critical mineral supply for Europe. https://lnkd.in/e7n-jGc7  

New mining activity temporarily halted in controversial KZN coal expansion saga #miningactivity #KZNcoal #coalindustry #environmentalcontroversy #mininghalt #sustainability #environmentalimpact #miningsector #coalmining #environmentalprotection #miningdevelopment #coalproject #environmentalconcerns #miningnews #coalreserves #environmentalissues #miningoperations #coalproduction #environmentalregulations #miningindustry #coalminingexpansion #environmentaladvocacy #miningcontroversy

The Environmental Cost of Gold Mining