PETER MAJOR: SA mining — from pygmy to powerhouse
SA’s mining sector has gone through wrenching changes over the past 40 years — not all of them good
24 October 2019 - 05:00
I landed in SA on January 7 1982, after an almost four-day trip from my town of Kellogg, Idaho, home of the world’s richest, deepest silver mines.
And yet, those Idaho mines were mere pygmies compared to what I would find here...
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