1. MINERAL POLICY & PROMOTION BRANCH Purpose: Develop relevant mineral policies that promote South Africa’s mining and minerals industries in order to attract investment
PRIORITY AREAS
Contribute to skills development
Promote Sustainable Resource Management
Promote Job Creation
Promote Investment in the Mineral Sector
Build strategic partnerships
Drive Transformation Policies
Promote Mineral Beneficiation
Regulate the Mining Sector
Mine environmental management
- Ownerless and Derelict Mine Rehabilitation

2. Actively contribute to sustainable development and growth
Contribute to skills development
- contribute to United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development reporting
- Careers in mining workshops
- Regulatory framework
2. Promote Sustainable Resource Management
- DMR supported SMMEs
- Mineral intelligence projects
- Economic and social impacts of regulatory framework
3. Promote Job Creation
- Counter – cyclical interventions

3. Promote and Transform the Mineral Sector
4. Promote Investment in the Mineral Sector
- Investment growth in the sector
- Mineral promotional activities
- Increase in levels of beneficiation and small scale mining
5. Build strategic partnerships
- Bilateral agreements
- strategic engagements
6. Drive Transformation Policies
- BEE ownership in the mining sector
- Sustainable SMMEs
- Women participation in the industry
7. Promote Mineral beneficiation
- Increase in levels of beneficiation
- DMR supported beneficiation projects

4. Internal business processes
8. Regulate the Mining & Minerals Sector
- Data submission: Sec 28(2)(c) of MPRDA
9. Mine Environmental Management
- Effective environmental management policies
- Research & development in mine environmental management
- Reduce State liability with regards to ownerless mines
- Best Environmental practices for the sector
10. Effective and Efficient Service Delivery
- Improved turnaround times
- Standardisation of internal processes
- % investment in information capital

5. Ownerless and Derelict Mine Rehabilitation
1. The rehabilitation strategy was approved in December
2. A detailed action plan in line with the approved strategy is currently being developed and will be finalised by end April 2010.
3 A rehabilitation procedure for D&O mines is being developed also in line with the approved strategy.
4 Prioritisation has been done, based on human and environmental factors.
5 Allocation of funds will be done based on the prioritisation.

6. THANK YOU
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