Cabinet backs six-pillar Critical Minerals Strategy Implementation Plan

South Africa’s Critical Minerals Strategy Implementation Plan has been approved by Cabinet, which claims it will significantly contribute to economic growth and job creation. In May, Cabinet approved the Critical Minerals and Metals Strategy for South Africa, which listed platinum, manganese, iron-ore, chrome ore, and more controversially coal, as “high-critical minerals”, while gold, vanadium, palladium, rhodium, and rare earth elements were characterised as being of moderate to high criticality.