Otmane El Rhazi : South Africa’s geoscience ‘desperately’ underfunded – Nedbank Capital

Otmane El Rhazi from Mining Weekly | Ferrous Metals Home.

Government geoscientists are desperately underfunded, which is depriving South Africa of the geological potential that is essential for minerals exploration. There is an absence of investment in large, regional geological exercises and masters students are not being trained in the countercyclical times, when the industry is not doing well.