Top Mining Companies In South Africa

What is Mining?

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials from the Earth and other astronomical objects. Mining is required to obtain most materials

that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a laboratory or factory.

Top Mining Companies In South Africa

How many mining companies are there in South Africa?

The mindat.org mining company directory with 789 mining companies listed.

Who is the biggest mining company in South Africa?

In June 2022, Anglo-American Platinum was South Africa’s leading mining company in terms of market capitalization.

The company had a market capitalization amounting to 378 billion rand. In the second position was Kumba Iron Ore with a market capitalization value of 169 billion rand.

Who owns mines in South Africa?

There are a number of mining companies that process uranium from mines that they own. Anglo Gold Ashanti, Sibayane Gold Ltd, Harmony Gold Mining Co.,

First Uranium, and Peninsula Energy own or control most of the uranium-from-gold mining processing plants in South Africa.

How big is South Africa’s mining industry?

The mining industry in South Africa has seen a doubling of its industry revenue in the past five years and, in 2022, the total revenue of South Africa’s mining industry was 747-billion rand.

Industrial-scale mining in South Africa started in the mid19th Century (1850), when the first copper mine was established.