Lack of publicly available cadastre impeding future mining potential – Miller

The South African junior mining, and particularly prospecting, sector will continue its rapid degradation if the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) continues to refuse to publicly release information pertaining to national mining and prospecting rights, says mining supply sales consultancy AmaranthCX director Paul Miller.

He tells Mining Weekly that South Africa is already one of the poorest performing countries in terms of attracting investment into its minerals and mining sector in the world and that the current opaque database of mining and prospecting rights is severely undermining exploration interest in the country and failing to woo local and foreign investors.