Minerals Council South Africa

Its members include famous South African mining houses such as Anglo American, De Beers, Gold Fields and Harmony.

[1] In its current form, it was founded in 1968 as the Chamber of Mines, a South African wide organization.

[2] On 21 October 1887, the Transvaal Chamber of Mines met for the first time at Central Hotel in Johannesburg.

[3]: 123  The organizations main aim was to disseminate information, the reading of technical and scientific papers, publishing monthly gold returns, financial issues and other mining issues but after a few meetings the group petered out.

[3]: 123 The early work of the Chamber was a uniform standard of treatment for black mine workers on the members mines, advocated for changes to the Gold Law legislation and for a railway system with the South African Republic government.