Critical time for South Africa’s mining industry – Leon

 Africa mining and energy projects head Peter Leon

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The South African mining industry – a mainstay of the country’s $357-billion economy, the biggest in Africa as well as the basis of this country’s industrialisation – is at a crossroads, says Webber Wentzel partner and Africa mining and energy projects head Peter Leon, who is also the immediate past chairperson of the International Bar Association’s mining law committee.

“This is a critical time” is how Leon describes mining’s current impasse in his comprehensive article, entitled ‘Whither the South African mining industry?’, in the latest edition of the international Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, which the London-based International Bar Association has given Mining Weekly permission to reproduce*.

The host of the world’s largest mineral reserves, worth $2.5-trillion, is thus seen to be at a point where decisive action is necessary. Read more here...