Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Jul 2025
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
119.00 % on Apr 30, 2021
Lowest
−50.40 % on Apr 30, 2020
About South Africa Mining Production YoY
In South Africa, the index of the volume of mining production is a statistical measure of the change in the volume of production. Coal is the most important sector and accounts for 24 percent of total mining production, followed by PGMs (23 percent); gold (16 percent); iron ore (12 percent); other non-metallic minerals (6 percent); diamonds (4 percent); manganese ore and chromium ore (3 percent each); other metallic minerals, building materials and nickel (2 percent each), and copper (1 percent).