In an interview in 2008, he said he clearly remembered watching King Solomon's Mines.
Its leader Julius Malema's signature policy is his demand to nationalize the country's mines.
The 53-year-old made his name in 1985, when Massey insisted on separate negotiations for each of the company's mines.
Taxes from Norilsk Nickel's mines provide nearly 70% of the regional administration's income.
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Another weakness shared by Zambia's mines and much of the rest of Africa is the lack of capital investment.
The next day an explosion in one of Mechel's mines injured 17 people, and the environmental agency launched an investigation.
While the ANC's main policy document, the Freedom Charter, called for nationalizing South Africa's mines, Motsepe was convinced that was the wrong solution.
The park's mines closed in the 1900s, but the leete path, one of the main trails through the park, follows the route of a former mine working watercourse.
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Some 500, 000 people work in South Africa's mines.
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The company, which also provides security at many of South Africa's mines and has been kept busy by the recent strikes in the sector, offers a range of services, including 24-hour property monitoring and protection against organized criminal syndicates.
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Bobby Godsell, a former chairman of AngloGold Ashanti, the world's third-biggest gold-mining company, who is a member of Mr Manuel's commission, says the odds of South Africa's mines being nationalised are as remote as America's Federal Reserve Bank being abolished by the Republican Tea Party.
Surber left the family behind in Saltville, Virginia, so he could head out to West Virginia's coal mines.
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Afghan officials also say they are aware of the country's unlicensed mines, but added that the government had cracked down on sites.
The decline of South Africa's gold mines has not taken place overnight.
Joy's underground equipment is in at least 46% of U.S. mines.
ZCCM's existing mines are run down, the potential remains huge.
It also has signed up Hollywood actress Mila Kunis to lead a fresh marketing campaign, featuring images of the starlet wearing a Romanov-style necklace inspired by an 1880s design with 79 emeralds from Gemfields's Zambian mines.
The most recent violence at Lonmin spun from a rivalry between the emerging Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, or AMCU, and NUM, the country's largest mine union, who are competing for majority union membership in South Africa's platinum mines.
In 1995, a lone gunman shot dead Burundi's Energy and Mines Minister Ernest Kabushemeye in the nation's capital, Bujumbura.
The 76-carat Archduke Joseph diamond, described as internally flawless, comes from India's famous Golconda mines.
Decisions about which councils are given salt ahead of others are usually made by heads of the UK's rock salt mines.
So is the scale of the logistical challenge of building one of the world's biggest copper mines in the middle of the desert.
Niger's presidency was meeting Thursday to discuss how soldiers would help protect the country's vast uranium mines, said Ousmane Toudou, media aide to President Mahamadou Issoufou.
On Friday, Chile's Minister of Mines, Laurence Golborne, told the assembled media that the official estimate of the rescue date was to be brought forward, to "the second half of October".
But in the early 1980s, a Socialist government reneged on its pledge to keep France's unprofitable coal mines open and, instead accelerated their closure, causing him to lose his job at a neighboring pit.
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