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Mapping and classification of mining host communities

A case study of South Africa

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Megan J. Cole, Jennifer L. Broadhurst

01 July 2020

Elsevier

English

Mining Towns Librarian

Journal article

Municipal Capability & Partnership Programme

Africa

This paper seeks to contribute to the growing body of work on mining and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing a foundation for understanding and delineating mining host communities. It uses South Africa as a case study and identifies, maps and classifies all 84 cities, towns and village clusters that host large-scale mines of the 17 major commodities. The paper proposes a quantitative methodology for classifying mining host communities that can be used in any country with a significant large-scale mining industry.

 

Section 2 provides background information on the history of modern mining and its host communities in South Africa. Section 3 describes the methods used to collect and analyse data while Section 4 summarises and visualises the results. Section 5 discusses the findings specifically related to defining and delineating mining host communities, classifying mining communities, the nature of mining communities in South Africa, and mine closure and downscaling.

 

This resource is part of the Mining Towns Collection kindly sponsored by the Municipal Capability and Partnership Programme

 

Abstract based on original source.

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Built environment

Climate Change/Resilience

Communities

Construction

Energy

Environmental management

Land

Livelihoods

Mining Towns

Mining Towns Collection

Small Towns

South Africa

Urban

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