Whether it is the UK's "Brexit", the US presidential elections or closer to our turf - the surprise rebound in iron ore demand and coal prices - the past year has kept all of us on our toes. Our views on the world have certainly been challenged. For the global mining industry, the past year has brought some reprieve. While market watchers were ready to sound a death knell on mining's prospects, we are still here: stronger than we were before, despite the continuing ebb and flow of sentiment and prices. To paraphrase Mark Twain, who once had the unenviable task to counter false rumours of his death: "The reports of mining's death are greatly exaggerated." Of course, we are not out of the woods yet. We still have a lot of work to do to regain broad stakeholder confidence in the global mining industry. In our particular case, many people still don't understand that the owners of most South African publicly listed mining companies are not the "Randlords" or magnates of the previous gene...
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