Winds of change sweep over coal sector

Friday, June 13, 2014

The fact that beneficiation only came to the party in the twilight of the Diamond Miracle, when dwindling reserves forced major producers to sift through tailings and even consider going underground, will always be sore spot for policymakers. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI, discovers that winds of change blowing across the next mining miracle – coal – offer an opportunity to right past wrongs

A finger licked and held in the air would have been an overly extravagant method of detecting the winds that blew through this week’s resource conference.

A simple cock of the ear in the tea-break discussions or a cursory glance between the lines of “official-speak” during presentations would have been enough to pick up the changes in the air at the 11th edition of the country’s most authoritative mining meet.

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