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SA has this one, final chance to win back mining investors
Paul Miller wrote this opinion piece immediately before the 2025 Mining Indaba, held in Cape Town in February. Some excerpts "O nce the...

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Apr 21 min read
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North West | Tlhatlhaganyane community tackles mining challenges
The Tlhatlhaganyane community near Rustenburg claims that inadequate mining regulation has led to increased criminal activity and illegal...

AmaranthCX
Sep 23, 20241 min read
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“It’s the wild west”: Zombie mines multiply in SA’s opaque coal sector
African Arguments visited ten “active” coal mines around Ermelo in South Africa. Three were abandoned, and had been for years according...

AmaranthCX
Sep 23, 20241 min read
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Will new cadastral agreement arrest SA mining’s 20-year exploration slump?
Government wants SA’s share of global exploration to recover to 5%. Let’s get to 1% first.

AmaranthCX
May 23, 20241 min read
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Exploring the Southern African Lithium Rush
The past three years have witnessed a surge in hard rock pegmatite lithium mining activity across southern Africa.

AmaranthCX
May 11, 20244 min read
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South African Mineral Exploration 2023
What do the financial statistics say? SA Reserve Bank Quarterly Bulletin Statistics SA collects statistics on gross fixed capital...

AmaranthCX
Feb 17, 20242 min read
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Who subscribes to AmaranthMaps?
The AmaranthMaps collection has been available for subscription since October 2022. Initially only the SA Mining Map, then the Southern...

AmaranthCX
Aug 27, 20232 min read
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Why renewable energy and mining project capital allocation are odd bedfellows
Paul Miller wrote a an op-ed for Miningmx reflecting on the place renewable energy projects hold in a mining company's capital allocation...

AmaranthCX
Aug 22, 20231 min read
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What needs to be done?
...and has anything changed? In 2021 Paul Miller participated in a panel discussion with the Head of the Junior Mining Group of the MCSA,...

AmaranthCX
Mar 20, 20231 min read
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Experts unpack why there are so few listed junior miners in South Africa
AmaranthCX's Paul Miller is quoted extensively in this 12 August 2022 article from Engineering News and Mining Weekly. Click here to...

AmaranthCX
Aug 13, 20221 min read
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Paul Miller on South Africa's ailing mining industry
"Solutions with David Ansara" podcast AmaranthCX's Paul Miller had a long form discussion with David Ansara a few weeks ago. It is...

AmaranthCX
Jun 21, 20221 min read
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Consultancy unpacks why primary capital is unattainable for junior miners
Mining Weekly picked up the talk that AmaranthCX's Paul Miller presented at the Junior Indaba conference, which was held in the first...

AmaranthCX
Jun 14, 20221 min read
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Over 1GW of mining embedded PV power on its way
Mining companies are leading the charge into renewable energy. The Southern African Power Pool is seeing a lot of activity. The ...

AmaranthCX
Feb 19, 20221 min read
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"...5% of global exploration spend in three to five years..." Gwede Mantashe, February 2019.
By: Paul Miller On February 13, 2019 Minister Gwede Mantashe was reported as saying in Parliament that “...we intend to secure a minimum...

AmaranthCX
Nov 3, 20214 min read
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Public Paucity
Important link between South Africa's mining industry and its public capital market is broken Paul Miller participated in a wide ranging...

AmaranthCX
Sep 1, 20211 min read
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How to start rebuilding confidence in South Africa’s mining and exploration industry
AmaranthCX's Paul Miller wrote an opinion piece for the Daily Maverick. He is of the view that there are immediate, practical, low cost,...

AmaranthCX
Jun 4, 20211 min read
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Let’s fix the admin before fixing the policy:
What low-cost, practical steps can South Africa take to get its junior mining and exploration sector back on track? This is the...

AmaranthCX
Jun 1, 20219 min read
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South African PGM mining by numbers
AmaranthCX recently published the first edition of it South African Platinum Group Metals Map. The map includes the boundaries of 53...

AmaranthCX
Mar 15, 20211 min read
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Just clearing exploration backlog would be huge leap forward – Miller
Mining Weekly's publishing editor Martin Creamer had a wide-ranging interview with Paul Miller - this video is an edited version that was...

AmaranthCX
Mar 15, 20211 min read
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2015 Mythbusting déjà vu - has anything really changed?
By: Paul Miller Back in 2015 I participated in the Junior Indaba conference's "Mythbusters" session. A panel of speakers each got a 4...

AmaranthCX
Mar 12, 20211 min read
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