The 1998 White Paper is still the current policy document. Recent developments include the Broad-based Socio-economic Empowerment Charter for the Mining and Minerals Industry, 2018.
You may pick up information in the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources' reports and proceedings on the Parliamentary Monitoring Group website.
South Africa. Department of Mineral Resources. Department of Mineral Resources third edition environmental implementation plan (2016/2020). In: South Africa. Government gazette no. 42010 (2 November 2018), Notice no. 1192.
South Africa. Department of Minerals and Energy. Environmental implementation plan, Second edition, March 2008. Pretoria: Government Printing Works, July 2008. In: South Africa. Government gazette no. 31188 (16 July 2008), General notice 798 of 2008. Use Sabinet's Government Gazette database for pages 22-129.
South Africa. Department of Mineral Resources and Energy. Artisanal and small--scale mining policy, 2022. Final V1 (2022). Pretoria: Government Printing Works, March 2022. In; SA. Government gazette no. 46124 (30 March 2022), Government notice no. 1938.
South Africa. Department of Mineral Resources and Energy. Discussion document: artisanal and small--scale mining policy, 2021. Pretoria: Government Printing Works, 5 May 2021.
Minerals and mining policy public workshops, 1 & 2 and 19 & 20 March 1996. Johannesburg?]: The Committee, 1996. Shelf no. G 68 E.MINE.96.MINE (2 volumes)
South Africa. Department of Minerals and Energy. A minerals and mining policy for South Africa : white paper. Pretoria: Department of Minerals and Energy, 1998. Shelf no. G 68 E.MINE.98.MINE
White paper on the mineral policy of the Republic of South Africa. Pretoria: Govt. Printer, 1986. Shelf no. G 68 EWP J/1986
A minerals and mining policy for South Africa : green paper for public discussion. Pretoria: Department of Minerals and Energy, 1997. Shelf no. G 68 E.MINE.97.MINE
Discussion document on a minerals and mining policy for South Africa. Pretoria: Dept. of Mineral and Energy Affairs, 1995. Shelf no. G 68 E.MINE.95.DISC
South Africa. Department of Science and Technology. South African Mining Extraction Research, Development & Innovation Strategy. Pretoria: CSIR, 2015.
South Africa. Department of Mineral Resources and Energy. The exploration strategy for the mining industry of South Africa, 2022. Pretoria: Government Printing Works, April 2022.
South Africa. Department of Mineral Resources and Energy. South Africa's exploration implementation plan, 2022. Pretoria: Government Printing Works, April 2022. In: South Africa. Government gazette no. 46246 (14 April 2022), notice no. 2027.
South Africa. Department of Mineral Resources and Energy. [Draft] National mine closure strategy, 2020. Pretoria: Government Printing Works, 21 May 2021. (No final strategy yet published, October 2024.)
South Africa. Department of Mineral Resources. A benefication strategy for the minerals industry of South Africa. Pretoria : Department of Mineral Resources, June 2011.
South Africa. Department of Mineral Resources. The National Strategy for the Management of Derelict and Ownerless Mines in South Africa. Pretoria: Department of Mineral Resources, 2009.
Technology Innovation Agency. The mining sector innovations strategies implementation plan, 2012/13-2016/17. Pretoria : Technology Innovation Agency.
South Africa. Department of Mineral Resources and Energy. South Africa's exploration implementation plan, 2022. Pretoria: Government Printing Works, April 2022.