impact of phosphate mining on the economy of south africa

The impact of phosphorus on projected Sub-Saharan Africa
2022.10.29 For SSP2 (A) Total phosphorus required (million tonnes) and percentage breakdown for Sub-Saharan Africa between 2020 and 2050; B Historic and projected DAP use (1000 tonnes) 1950–2050 in Nigeria...
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Phosphate Mining Firms Set Sights on Southern Africa’s Sea
2016.11.30 Mining opponents also worry offshore mining would negatively impact food production and economic growth. Several thousand subsistence farmers live along South Africa's coast, and the country's large-scale fishing industry produces around 600,000 metric tonnes of catch per year.
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Realising the circular phosphorus economy delivers for
2023.10.4 The problems are multifold: there are geopolitical concerns over phosphorus deposits held only by a few nations, sharply rising costs of phosphorus fertilizers, heavy metal contaminants affecting...
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What is the impact of the phosphate industry on the South African economy?
2024.1.18 zhu hailong. Mining Equipment at Shanghai Shibang Machine. Published Jan 18, 2024. + Follow. The phosphate industry plays a significant role in South Africa, particularly in the mining...
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BRIEF OVERVIEW OF POTENTIAL ECOSYSTEM IMPACTS
2016.9.7 BRIEF OVERVIEW OF POTENTIAL ECOSYSTEM IMPACTS OF MARINE PHOSPHATE MINING IN THE WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA. Prepared for WWF South Africa. AUTHOR. Jock Currie. University of Cape Town.
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ASSESSING THE DESIRABILITY OF MARINE PHOSPHATE
2016.9.7 Sizwe Vidima and Harro von Blottnitz. Environmental and Process Systems Engineering University of Cape Town. THE MARINE MINING OF PHOSPHATE MINERAL RESOURCES IS UNWARRANTED IN SOUTH AFRICA SINCE IT WOULD INTENSIFY PHOSPHATE FLOWS AND IN THE PROCESS CAUSE A RISE IN THE PHOSPHATE
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An input–output analysis of the impact of mining on the South African ...
2000.3.1 A basic premise of the White Paper is that the South African mining industry “has the capacity to generate wealth and employment opportunities on a large scale” (p. 4). Our estimated total and type II total GDP multipliers indicated that mining activity in South Africa had about the same impact on GDP as other economic activities.
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Marine phosphate mining - Centre for Environmental
2016.6.1 phosphate mining could cause significant and irreversible impacts to biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and fishery resources. How will this impact on existing ocean economy activities? If bulk mining of the sea floor is to be considered, the financial gains and job creation for local communities need to be
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Mining and Minerals in South Africa The Oxford Handbook of the South ...
Series. Oxford Handbooks. Collection: Oxford Handbooks Online. For 150 years, the mining industry has shaped economic and social development in South Africa. As of 2020, it continued to disproportionately affect exports, the production structure, investment, climate change, economic power, and labour relations.
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Environmental and socio-economic impacts
It is thus important that the socio-economic contributions of fishing are understood and considered in decision-making on seabed mining. South Africa’s commercial fishing industry employs approximately 27 000
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The Economic and Environmental Effects of Coal Mining: South Africa
2023.2.16 The positive influence is that coal mining improves the South African economy, expressive of impacts on export, domestic consumption, GDP, and employment. However, coal mining damages the ...
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Elandsfontein phosphate project, South Africa – update
2024.1.26 Location Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape, South Africa. Project Owner/s The Elandsfontein project is held by Kropz (70%), African Rainbow Capital, or ARC (25%), and a smaller empowerment ...
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An assessment of the impacts of acid mine drainage on socio-economic ...
2014.11.6 For more than a century, the mining sector has played a crucial role in the economic development of South Africa. However, it also causes immense harm to the country’s people and environment. Gold and coal mining have serious implications for water management. The problem arises when contaminated water in the form of acid mine
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THE IMPACT OF MINING ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY
2018.2.10 All of these figures and considerations nevertheless understate the importance of mining to the South African economy. In 2016, for example, according to the Chamber, mining contributed R291 billion to GDP directly, but spent R245 billion on purchases of goods and services from the other sectors of the economy.
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Overview of South Africa's Phosphate Fertiliser Industry
The South African fertiliser industry comprises of four companies that share about 94 percent of the market. The four companies are Sasol, Omnia, Yara and Profert. Fertilizer products that are produced include nitrogenous, potash, and phosphate fertilizers (including ground rock phosphate).
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How Does Mining Contribute To The Economy Of South Africa
2024.2.9 The mining industry is a major contributor to the South African economy, with over US$16 billion in revenue generated in 2014. The sector employs around 176,000 people, provides significant tax revenue and supports other economic sectors. Mining has a significant impact on the economy of South Africa, contributing significantly to GDP.
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The impact of gold mining on the Witwatersrand on the
2012.6.15 The gold economy in South Africa has been mainly an extracting enterprise since the British government took over the rule of South Africa after the Anglo-Boer War and this is still the case today. Mining costs are kept artificially low by the mines by deflecting responsibility for their environmental and health impacts to the state and third ...
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Global phosphorus supply chain dynamics: Assessing regional impact
2020.9.1 Fig. 2 shows phosphate fertilizer requirement tied to population per world region (a) and the population dynamics (b). South Asia (SA), and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are the regions where most growth in P requirement will occur in the future. North Africa and West Asia (NAWA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will also experience
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mining and beneficiation of rock phosphate in south africa
phosphate mining in south africa. phosphate industry in south africa Phosphate rock is mined on a large scale as a source material for fertilizers and other phosphorus containing products such as phosphoric acid and gypsum UNSCEAR 2008South Africa has about 23 of the world phosphate reserves and produces 23 million tonnes of phosphate rock per ...
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impact of phosphate mining industry on the south african economy
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The socio-economic impacts of mine closure on local
2019.4.1 Studying the social impacts of mine closure at Pilgrim's Rest in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, Siyongwana and Shabala [120] observed similar negative spiral of economic and social decline ...
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The Economic and Environmental Effects of Coal Mining:
2023.9.10 The literature facts of coal mining’s contributions in South Africa’s economy From at economic aspect, coal mining impacts export, domestic consumption, GDP, and employment in South Africa.
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Resource sovereignty, marine phosphate mining and the blue economy
2019.7.24 potential for marine phospha te mining in Na mibia has also been influenced by advances in technology as. well as shifts in geopolitical and economic logic. The blue economy agenda, which sees the ...
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Impact Of Phosphate Mining On The Economy Of South Africa
South Africa GDP From Mining 2023 Data 2024 Forecast The role of mining in the South African economy Environmental impact of phosphate mining and 2018.1.1 Phosphate rock mining has led to rock desertification, landscape modification, loss of biodiversity, dust and air pollution, ground erosion, ore extraction,
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sbm/sbm economic impact of mining phosphate in south africa
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the effect that phosphate has on the south african economy
The Effect Of The Phosphate Mining On South African Economy. Aug 25, 1987 Mining Is Still Key to South African Economy in gold prices still have a large effect on the overall economy. South Africa's Mining Industries The South African economy has, in recent years, succeeded in reducing its dependency on .
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(PDF) Mineral policy impact on South Africa's mining sector An economic ...
This report summa rises an empirical analy sis of the impact of key Gov ernment policy interventions s ince the advent of democracy. in South Africa on the mining sector. This analysis has be en ...
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Potential radiological impact of the phosphate industry in South Africa ...
2020.6.1 South Africa has about 2.3% of the world phosphate reserves and produces 2.3 million tonnes of phosphate rock per year, of which about 16% is exported (IAEA, 2013). The Phalaborwa Igneous Complex in the Lowveld region of South Africa is underlain by Archaean granite which contains remnants of highly altered sedimentary, basic, and
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South Africa: value added to GDP by mining 2016-2023 Statista
2024.3.5 Get in touch with us now. , Mar 5, 2024. In 2023, the mining sector in South Africa contributed an added value of approximately 202.05 billion South African Rand (roughly 10.65 billion U.S ...
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Impacts of Mining on the Environment in West African Sahel:
2023.6.28 In Africa, Ghana is the second largest gold producer, contributing to about 5.7% of the country’s GDP. The mining sector in Ghana consists of both small-scale and large-scale mining, each of ...
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ARME seeks to rebuild South Africa’s promising
2022.9.23 The 51% South African women-owned mining and exploration company is focusing on exploring for sedimentary phosphates and limestone in the Saldanha Bay area of the Western Cape.
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Regulation and remediation of the impacts of
2021.11.18 4. use and farming. 13. Areas battling the most with mine-related environmental concerns include. Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Limpopo. 14. In particular, water sources in those areas are highly ...
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Community Perceptions on Environmental and Social Impacts of Mining
2022.10.25 In South Africa for example, the Mining industry has been the major driving force behind the economic success of the country with up to eight percent (8%) of the South African GDP contributed by ...
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Potential radiological impact of the phosphate industry in South Africa ...
2020.6.1 Bezuidenhout (2015) reported a dose of up to 0.45 mSv a −1 at a disused phosphate mine, confined to the area which used to be the processing plant of the mine. 3.2. Potential radiological risk. The results were evaluated against the South African legislative exemption level of 500 Bq kg −1. Radiation indices discussed in 2.3 were used to ...
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Perceptions of local communities regarding the impacts of mining
2023.1.1 The green energy transition is aimed at mitigating the impact of climate change. Yet, the current emphasis on ‘green’ is narrowly centred around decarbonisation, or CO 2 reduction, often side-lining the roles of other gases, such as sulphur hexafluoride (SF 6) and PCF-14 (CF 4), which have a respective 24,300- and 7380-times higher global
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impacts of the phosphate mining on economy of south africa
South Africa's mining industry is the fifth largest globally in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). The mining sector contributed R356bn or 7.3% to South Africa's GDP and accounted for 25% of the country's total export earnings. Platinum, coal and gold are the three largest mining exports. In 2018, the mining industry contributed R93bn ...
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Africa’s only woman-owned phosphate mine at advanced
2023.2.7 The world’s only woman-owned phosphate mine, the Zandheuvel phosphate mine in South Africa’s Saldanha Bay, is at a very advanced stage of completing its bankable feasibility study (BFS), with ...
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South Africa Stone Quarrying, Clay and Sandpits, and Mining
Dublin, March 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Stone Quarrying, Clay and Sandpits, and Mining of Phosphate in South Africa 2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets's offering.
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Mining and Minerals in South Africa The Oxford Handbook of the South ...
The impact of mining on the economy and society is best understood through analysis of the value chain, rather than through extraction alone. The mining value chain stretches from the production of inputs—in South Africa, principally capital goods and construction services—to mining itself, to the metals and coal refineries, to export markets and domestic
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