Investors must be shown that there are opportunities to make money and that is what we offer them in the SA mining industry, Minister of Mineral Resources Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday.
He was one of the guest speakers at a roundtable hosted by the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) on the sidelines of Mining Indaba 2019.
“We have learnt the hard way that if you want investments, you have to talk to the industry and to communities too,” said Mantashe.
“Investors want certainty when they invest in mining in SA. At the same time, we cannot stop the decline of gold mining, for instance, but we have to manage that decline efficiently.”
‘Come and mine and make your money’
Another important issue for Mantashe is how little beneficiation takes place inside SA in the mining industry.
“We are exporting jobs in this way when we should be discussing
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