Browsing Economic and Management Sciences by Subject "Mining"
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Analysing the impact of the resource-to-reserve processes on financial viability in mining projects
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2015)South Africa has immense mineral resources, historically and contemporarily engendering the mining industry an integral part of the Country’s economy. Considerable quantities of money are expended on the evaluation, ... -
An analysis of the South African income tax implications on mine rehabilitation funding vehicles
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Mines can have significant consequences for humans and nature, and can affect anyone. The use of tax policy to encourage investment in natural resources is contentious as some taxpayers obtain a benefit not available to ... -
Assessing the awareness of environmental management accounting in the mining industry
(2013)The extraction of raw materials has environmental impacts. Forestry and the extraction of coal, oil, natural gas, gold and other minerals can have serious impacts on the environment. Exploration and evaluation, development ... -
Assessing value–based management implementation in a mining company
(2014)Value-based management (VBM) is a business philosophy and management system for competing effectively in the global marketplace, based upon the inherent value, dignity and empowerment of each person particularly each ... -
The Authentic Leadership Inventory: measurement invariance in selected industries in South Africa
(2016)A need exists for validating the authentic leadership construct across different contexts and ensuring measurement invariance of the Authentic Leadership Inventory (ALI) in different groups. Despite this need, few attempts ... -
Capitalising on professional Millennial employees: Exploratory study on a mining organisation's talent management strategies
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)The Millennial generation are individuals born between 1982 and 2000 and are starting to dominate the workforce while most of the previous generations are retiring. Millennials are different in terms of their needs and ... -
Community perceptions of sustainable development : implications for an approach to closure mining
(2015)The closure of a mine is an inevitable event in the lifecycle of a mining operation and one that can have massive environmental, social and economic consequences for mining communities in particular. The ultimate goal of ... -
Corporate cocial responsibility: impact of Exxaro mine’s social and labour plan in the community
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mining sector was to a large extent neglected until the year 2002, post the promulgation of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) (Kloppers & du Plessis, ... -
corporate governance framework for South African mining companies when placing a mine on care and maintenance
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2018)Directors and management teams of mining companies are likely to be confronted with external or internal circumstances that may cause mining operations to be placed on care and maintenance. This is a complex process that ... -
Determining the influence of corporate social responsibility by mining companies in the Sekhukhune District
(North-West University, 2018)Mining is a financial action that can possibly create considerable development in areas affected by its operations. Mining operations may, likewise, adversely influence the encompassing groups as an outcome of certain ...