Scratching the Surface: Mosa Mabuza on the Future of South African Geoscience
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In this episode of The Mining Pulse, hosts James Agenbag and Graeme Smith sit down with Mosa Mabuza, CEO of the Council of Geoscience, to run a comprehensive reality check on South Africa's geological future. Overseeing the organization that acts as the custodian of the country's subsurface data, Mosa leverages his deep background, which started at Anglo American, to unpack the massive digital transformation happening in exploration.
Forget the narrative that South African mining is in a sunset phase—this conversation explores why 150 years of formalized mining has only scratched the surface.
Key Diagnostics Covered in This Episode:
•The Exploration Investment Gap: Why OECD countries invest $65 per square kilometer in geology while Africa invests less than $5, and how the Council is working to close that gap.
•The Junior Mining Fund: How the Council of Geoscience and the IDC are providing concessionary grants and technical support to de-risk new exploration projects.
High-Resolution Mapping: The shift from 1:250,000 scale mapping to a detailed 1:50,000 scale, currently covering 20% of the country.
•The Virtual Core Library: How hyperspectral scanning of legacy core samples allows global geologists to inspect and rotate digital core imagery from anywhere in the world.
•Beyond Mining: The critical role of geoscience in infrastructure, including the seismic and tsunami modeling for the Koeberg power station extension.
Listen in to discover why geology remains the sharp end of the mining wedge and how to access the growing digital data portal.
Stay Sharp.
Stay Informed.
Stay on the pulse.
Forget the narrative that South African mining is in a sunset phase—this conversation explores why 150 years of formalized mining has only scratched the surface.
Key Diagnostics Covered in This Episode:
•The Exploration Investment Gap: Why OECD countries invest $65 per square kilometer in geology while Africa invests less than $5, and how the Council is working to close that gap.
•The Junior Mining Fund: How the Council of Geoscience and the IDC are providing concessionary grants and technical support to de-risk new exploration projects.
High-Resolution Mapping: The shift from 1:250,000 scale mapping to a detailed 1:50,000 scale, currently covering 20% of the country.
•The Virtual Core Library: How hyperspectral scanning of legacy core samples allows global geologists to inspect and rotate digital core imagery from anywhere in the world.
•Beyond Mining: The critical role of geoscience in infrastructure, including the seismic and tsunami modeling for the Koeberg power station extension.
Listen in to discover why geology remains the sharp end of the mining wedge and how to access the growing digital data portal.
Stay Sharp.
Stay Informed.
Stay on the pulse.
