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Beneficiation is the new buzz word in government’s resource-nationalism plan, which proposes taxes on the export of raw materials in a bid to boost manufacturing in downstream industries and create jobs manganese beneficiation plant. “Nationalisation is off the table,” Minerals and Resources Minister Susan Shabangu declared at the Mining Indaba this week. “But the beneficiation policy is definitely going ahead. Beneficiation is the vehicle through which South Africa’s resource-based comparative advantage can be transformed into a national competitive advantage.”The Mail & Guardian has a copy of the beneficiation policy, which is in its second draft and draws from a model pioneered in the Nordic countries. It proposes “export-import duties” on some minerals and “competitive pricing mechanisms” for certain industries. Intervention is mooted in the value chain of coal, platinum, iron ore, steel, energy, autocatalytic converters, diesel particulates, titanium and jewellery iron ore beneficiation plant. The draft policy, which feeds into the ANC’s 600-page “State Intervention in Minerals Sector” report, dovetails South Africa’s industrial policy action plan and the new growth path, which identifies mineral beneficiation as one of the priority growth nodes to help create five-million jobs by 2020. Government unhappy at the exporting of mineral resourcesOne of the government’s biggest gripes is that South Africa is a rich mining jurisdiction with an estimated mineral wealth of $2.5-trillion, yet a considerable amount of its mineral resources is exported as raw ore or only partially processed. Belt Conveyor Supplier Manufacturers
This is particularly important in the context of the country’s inequality, poverty and 24% unemployment rate. “We must not be told ‘we have a 30-year commitment outside of South Africa, sorry, we can’t give you anything’,” Shabangu said. “We want to see something when we require that to grow our new industries, but also to create jobs.” But Shabangu said it was not the government’s intention to “force mining companies into being manufacturers, but rather to address the challenge of the inaccessibility of our raw materials as an impediment to greater local beneficiation”. In 2008, before the global financial meltdown knocked mining profits, gross revenue from sales of all minerals in South Africa amounted to just less than R300-billion. Similarly, just more than R86-billion was generated from the processing of base and precious metals and other minerals, representing 11% of the total volume of minerals produced. “This represents the opportunity loss in export revenue and employment-creation opportunities,” states the paper.But the government acknowledges in the paper that it cannot pull off the beneficiation strategy without “intensive co-ordination” across a range of departments, particularly mineral resources, economic development, trade and industry, science and technology, public enterprises, energy and the treasury, as well as business and labour. The beneficiation paper cites access to raw materials at developmental prices, infrastructure (access, costs and logistics), limited innovation and, more broadly, research and development and the shortage of critical skills as constraints to implementation.Steam Coal Crusher Manufacturers
The concept of beneficiation is not new in South Africa. For example, the bulk of the country’s electricity is generated from coal power stations, which consume more than 50% of its annual production of coal.The briquettes can also replace scrap used in blast furnaces, which represents another market mineral beneficiation machinery.Metallic iron’s bulk density is 4.4 g/cm3, compared with only 1.8 g/cm3 for iron-ore, and 93% of the metallic product is iron, compared with only 63% for iron-ore at the same shipping cost.Fundamentally, 1.5 times more metallic iron can be moved, with the worth of that iron 3.5 times the value of iron carried in ore and with it taking up only 40% of the space required on ships for the transport of iron-ore.“Electric steelmaking is the preferred option; availability of scrap is the dictator,” says Beachy Head.Although iron-ore is selling at $180/t and scrap at $430/t, overall iron-making costs from iron-ore exceed those from scrap.IMBS hopes to be producing one-million tons of metallic iron in South Africa in five years, with a plan for another million tons.“From the South African perspective, once we have a lot of metallic iron available, the country can base an entire steel industry on it.“We can create massive employment downstream from that and, instead of selling iron-ore, we can sell a highly valu- able product.Effectively, if we produced the equivalent of the 35-million tons of iron-ore being produced a year in South Africa as metallic iron, it would change the face of what we do,” he adds. Lignite Crusher In Australia Manufacturers.
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