Opportunity Issue 108
Opportunity magazine is a niche business-to-business publication that explores various investment opportunities within Southern Africa’s economic sectors. The publication is endorsed by the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI).
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MAPS FOR GROWTH<br />
accessible to showcase the country’s exploration potential.<br />
This fast-tracked production approach has already yielded<br />
results as new geoscience data has identified potential<br />
hydrothermal and magmatic mineral targets in the<br />
Northern Cape, Western Cape, North West and Limpopo<br />
provinces. These targets include critical minerals such as<br />
lithium, manganese, vanadium, fluorspar, phosphates and<br />
base metals. The geoscience-mapping programme has<br />
further been utilised to aid investigations into national<br />
energy security and the Just Energy Transition. These<br />
projects include research into geothermal potential as well<br />
as Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) which will<br />
augment the sustainable renewable energy programme<br />
in the medium to long term, reaffirming South Africa’s<br />
commitment to clean energy.<br />
The multidisciplinary onshore-mapping programme<br />
also presents opportunities to contribute towards<br />
infrastructure and land-use development at provincial<br />
and municipal levels by producing detailed geological<br />
maps and associated geohazard risk assessments<br />
representing valuable tools for future land-use planning<br />
and the management of current infrastructure and<br />
development projects.<br />
The onshore-mapping programme focusses on projects<br />
in the Eastern, Western and Northern Cape provinces and<br />
in Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu‐Natal, North West and<br />
Limpopo provinces. For the year ahead, the CGS will focus<br />
on the continued production of fundamental geological<br />
maps and associated data to be utilised across a range<br />
of sectors. These include applied geoscience solutions,<br />
mineral and energy resources, health, groundwater<br />
and the environment, infrastructure and land use and<br />
geoscience innovation.<br />
The CGS is privileged to be at the leading edge of<br />
rejuvenating and reimagining the exploration landscape<br />
in South Africa. Through the scientific and strategic<br />
goals of the IMMP and its 1:50 000-scale mapping<br />
programme, the CGS has positioned itself at the forefront<br />
of multidisciplinary mapping techniques in Africa<br />
and globally. The aim of these initiatives is to provide<br />
integrated, systematic and thematic research products<br />
to contribute to the assessment and sustainable<br />
management of mineral, geohydrological and geoenvironmental<br />
resources in South Africa. Consistent with<br />
the quality of South Africa’s geological endowment, the<br />
CGS mapping programme has shown that the country<br />
remains an exploration frontier in new emerging<br />
minerals markets.<br />
CGS scientist identifying critical mineral-bearing pegmatite in<br />
Namaqualand, Northern Cape. Large pink spodumene crystals (a<br />
lithium aluminium silicate mineral) can be seen in a lepidolite matrix.<br />
CGS staff examining an outcrop of Palaeoarchaean felsic agglomerate<br />
in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, Mpumalanga.<br />
CGS scientist mapping landslides in Natal Group sandstones in<br />
KwaZulu-Natal.<br />
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