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South Africa Mining & Resources
Expert guides, analysis and tool comparisons on South Africa Mining & Resources from the kurums.com Startup desk — written for business decision-makers and updated as the market moves.
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- Updated Aug 25, 2026
Latest in South Africa Mining & Resources
Sibanye-Stillwater: Buying What Everyone Else Was Selling
Late-life assets nobody wanted, bought cheaply and run hard — the highest-return and highest-risk strategy in mining.
Gold Fields: The Industry That Left Its Own Country
The world’s deepest mines produce the world’s most expensive ounces — and the industry followed the cost curve abroad.
De Beers: How to Manufacture Scarcity
The definitive case study in engineered scarcity — and in how engineered scarcity eventually breaks.
Anglo American: The Company That Owned South African Capitalism
A century of controlling South African capitalism, then two decades of narrowing into a takeover target.
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