{"id":44,"date":"2012-02-07T08:08:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.143.185.113\/?p=44"},"modified":"2012-02-07T08:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T08:09:01","slug":"south-africa-looking-for-new-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"South Africa looking for new minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/79.143.185.113\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/minerals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45\" title=\"minerals\" src=\"http:\/\/79.143.185.113\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/minerals-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/minerals-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/minerals.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>South Africa will be looking for new minerals to mine as a way to boost investment, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There is significant potential for the discovery of other world-class deposits in areas that are yet to be thoroughly explored, using the latest exploration technologies and enhanced geoscientific data,&#8221; she said at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is against this backdrop that government is now embarking on an effort to support exploration,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Discovering new deposits would lead to the opening of new mines, a way to meet the national job creation objective.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;To this end, Treasury has set aside a budget for the next three years for geoscientific research, through the Council for Geoscience,&#8221; Shabangu said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Council for Geoscience will undertake geological, geophysical and geochemical planning whose data will be made accessible to potential investors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa holds some of the highest reserves of gold, manganese and platinum group metals in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Shabangu, the country accounts for 88 percent of platinum group metals and about 80 percent of manganese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa will be looking for new minerals to mine as a way to boost investment, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said on Tuesday. &#8220;There is significant potential for the discovery of other world-class deposits in areas that are yet to be thoroughly explored, using the latest exploration technologies and enhanced geoscientific data,&#8221; she said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=44\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Africa looking for new minerals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[30,27,28,12250,29],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-geoscience","tag-minerals","tag-mining-indaba","tag-south-africa","tag-susan-shabangu"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}