South Africa's beneficiation strategy has often treated downstream processing as a general principle to be applied across the mining sector.
Policy & Strategy-10 January 2025-8 min read
Why beneficiation policy fails when it treats every mineral the same
South Africa's beneficiation mandate applies a uniform logic to commodities with fundamentally different metallurgy, market structures, capital requirements and competitive positions.
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Victor MkhaliphiMetallurgical Engineer
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Victor Mkhaliphi is a metallurgical engineer and minerals-sector analyst with experience spanning pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, mineral beneficiation economics and African industrial strategy.
Sources: Derived from DMRE policy archives, published metallurgical flowsheets, and McKallip Mineral Research internal models.
Last updated: 10 January 2025
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