The mining industry’s lobby group had complained for years that not being allowed to deduct royalties amounted to double taxation and deterred investment.
The number of deaths in the world’s top platinum-group metals miner rose to 55 between January and Oct. 28 this year, from 43 in the same period last year.
New report lays out how the green energy transition “starts and ends with metals” but the required exponential growth in mining is a glaring hole in US and global decarbonisation strategies.