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Stone Quarrying, Clay, Sandpits, and Mining of Phosphates in South Africa 2019

Alex Conradie | South Africa | 13 December 2019

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Alex Conradie | South Africa | 19 September 2017

Stone Quarrying, Clay, Sandpits, and Mining of Phosphates in South Africa 2015

Glynis Harrison | South Africa | 12 May 2015

Report Coverage

This report on Stone Quarrying, Clay and Sandpits, and Mining of Phosphates, includes comprehensive information on the size and state of these sectors, production and trade data and corporate actions. There are profiles of 23 companies including Afrimat, which has 31 aggregate and sand quarries as well as limestone and silica mines, and other notable players in the sector such as PPC, Raubex, AfriSam and Lafarge Mining South Africa. Phosphate rock companies profiled include Foskor, which exploits the country’s largest phosphate rock deposit and Kropz, whose Elandsfontein mine will exploit South Africa’s largest sedimentary phosphate rock deposit.

Stone Quarrying, Clay and Sandpits, and Mining of Phosphates

Low activity levels in the construction sector and rising input costs are providing challenges for the quarrying and the phosphate rock mining sectors. The construction sector, on which the industry relies, continues to struggle, largely due to low government spending on infrastructure, while some industry operations have experienced community unrest. Infrastructure projects are increasingly being packaged into smaller parts to allow emerging construction companies to take part in infrastructure development, leading some quarrying and phosphate companies to adapt their business models. South Africa’s quarrying sector consists of a large number of players, including global cement producers like LafargeHolcim, major South African companies like PPC, and many smaller producers.

Phosphate Rock Developments

The mining of phosphate rock is carried out by one large company, Foskor, and one smaller producer, Gecko Fert, while Kropz is developing a new mine. Foskor increased its production of phosphate rock concentrate but it continues to make losses and its board is reviewing its underperforming operations to develop a turnaround plan which may include it being modernised and possibly downscaled. Kropz, which has made a significant investment in the development of its Elandsfontein mine and processing facility on the West Coast, has delayed commissioning.

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		PAGE
1.	INTRODUCTION	4
2.	DESCRIPTION OF THE INDUSTRY	4
2.1.	Industry Value Chain	4
2.2.	Geographic Position	6
3.	SIZE OF THE INDUSTRY	8
4.	STATE OF THE INDUSTRY	10
4.1.	Local	10
4.1.1.	Trade	12
4.1.2.	Corporate Actions	15
4.1.3.	Regulations	16
4.1.4.	Enterprise Development and Social Economic Development	19
4.2.	Continental	20
4.3.	International	21
5.	INFLUENCING FACTORS	25
5.1.	Economic Environment	25
5.2.	Environmental Concerns	26
5.3.	Labour	27
5.4.	Technology, Research and Development (R&D) and Innovation	29
6.	COMPETITION	30
6.1.	Barriers to Entry	31
7.	SWOT ANALYSIS	31
8.	OUTLOOK	32
9.	INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS	32
10.	REFERENCES	33
10.1.	Publications	33
10.2.	Websites	33
	APPENDIX 1 - SUMMARY OF NOTABLE PLAYERS	35
	Stone Quarrying, Clay & Sandpits	35
	Mining of Phosphates	38
	COMPANY PROFILES – STONE QUARRYING, CLAY & SANDPITS	39
	AFRIMAT LTD	39
	AFRISAM (SOUTH AFRICA) (PTY) LTD	45
	ATTACLAY (PTY) LTD	50
	BRIKOR LTD	52
	COROBRIK (PTY) LTD	56
	DANGOTE CEMENT SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD	60
	DENRON QUARRIES (PTY) LTD	62
	DRIFT SUPERSAND (PTY) LTD	64
	EAGLE GRANITE (PTY) LTD	66
	G AND W BASE AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS (PTY) LTD	67
	LAFARGE MINING SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD	69
	MARLIN HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD	72
	MAXIMA SILICA (PTY) LTD	75
	PPC LTD	77
	R E D GRANITI SA (PTY) LTD	82
	RAUBEX GROUP LTD	84
	SILICA QUARTZ (PTY) LTD	89
	SOUTH COAST STONE CRUSHERS (PTY) LTD	91
	THABA CHUEU MINING (PTY) LTD	93
	W G WEARNE LTD	95
	COMPANY PROFILES - MINING OF PHOSPHATES	98
	FOSKOR (PTY) LTD	98
	GECKO FERT (PTY) LTD	102
	KROPZ PLC	103

Report coverage

The report on Stone Quarrying, Clay and Sandpits examines current conditions, developments and investments as well as factors that influence the success of the sector. The report profiles 20 companies ranging from major players to smaller role players such as Attaclay (Pty) Ltd, which has one clay mine in Gauteng, and Silica Quartz (Pty) Ltd which mines one silica sand quarry in Mpumalanga. Also profiled is Brikor Ltd which went into provisional liquidation in 2103 and is currently selling off a number of assets.

Stone Quarrying, Clay and Sandpits

The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) lists 881 quarrying operations located throughout South Africa. 92.2 million tonnes of mined aggregate, clay, natural sand, dimension stone and limestone to the value of R9.4bn was sold locally during 2016 while the value of exports of quarry products reached US$61.5m. Although the majority of quarries are individually owned by small operators, a number of large companies are also involved in the sector. These include cement producers like Lafarge, PPC, AfriSam and Dangote Cement that own limestone quarries, construction companies such as Raubex that own sand and aggregate operations, and brick manufacturers like Corobrik that own clay quarries.

A challenging environment

The quarrying sector is largely dependent on the construction industry for demand for its products and the decrease of 0.5% in the construction sector in the second quarter of 2017, following the decrease of 0.8% during the first quarter, has resulted in trying times for companies. Rapidly rising input costs and regulatory uncertainty are also proving challenging. During June 2017 the Chamber of Mines lodged an urgent application to the High Court to prevent the implementation of the Reviewed Mining Charter published earlier that month. The organisation stated that should the Mining Charter be implemented, it will “destroy the very industry whose survival is necessary to give effect to the objects of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act.”

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		PAGE
1.	INTRODUCTION	1
2.	DESCRIPTION OF THE INDUSTRY	1
2.1.	Industry Value Chain	2
2.2.	Geographic Position	3
3.	SIZE OF THE INDUSTRY	3
4.	STATE OF THE INDUSTRY	7
4.1.	Local	7
4.1.1.	Corporate Actions	12
4.1.2.	Regulations	13
4.1.3.	Enterprise Development and Social Economic Development	17
4.2.	Continental	18
4.3.	International	18
5.	INFLUENCING FACTORS	20
5.1.	State of the Construction Industry	20
5.2.	Economic Environment	21
5.3.	Environmental Concerns	21
5.4.	Labour	22
5.5.	Technology, Research and Development (R&D) and Innovation	24
6.	COMPETITION	25
6.1.	Barriers to Entry	26
7.	SWOT ANALYSIS	26
8.	OUTLOOK	27
9.	INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS	27
10.	REFERENCES	28
10.1.	Publications	28
10.2.	Websites	28
	APPENDIX 1 - THE SILICA ROCK SECTOR	30
	I. SILICA ROCK, SILICA SAND AND SILICA CHIP	30
	II. SILICON METAL	33
	III. FERROSILICON	36
	IV. SILICA FUME (MICROSILICA)	39
	V. SILICON CARBIDE	41
	VI. GLASS	44
	VII. ELECTRODE PASTE	44
	COMPANY PROFILES	47
	AFRIMAT LTD	47
	AFRISAM (SOUTH AFRICA) (PTY) LTD	54
	ATTACLAY (PTY) LTD	59
	BRIKOR LTD	61
	COROBRIK (PTY) LTD	64
	DANGOTE CEMENT SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD	68
	DENRON QUARRIES (PTY) LTD	70
	DRIFT SUPERSAND (PTY) LTD	72
	EAGLE GRANITE (PTY) LTD	74
	G AND W BASE AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS (PTY) LTD	75
	LAFARGE MINING SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD	77
	MARLIN HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD	80
	MAXIMA SILICA (PTY) LTD	82
	PPC LTD	84
	R E D GRANITI SA (PTY) LTD	89
	RAUBEX GROUP LTD	91
	SILICA QUARTZ (PTY) LTD	95
	SOUTH COAST STONE CRUSHERS (PTY) LTD	97
	THABA CHUEU MINING (PTY) LTD	99
	W G WEARNE LTD	101

Report Coverage

The report on the Quarrying sector describes the current market, outlines developments within the sector and focuses on factors influencing the success of the local industry. The report also profiles 14 South African-based companies, ranging from Denron Quarries (Pty) Ltd in the Western Cape, which employs 34 people at its three aggregates quarries, to major player Afrisam (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, which operates six cement production facilities, nine cement depots, 16 quarries and aggregate operations, 40 readymix concrete plants and one slagment plant.

The South African Market

This report focuses on the quarrying sector which includes stone, clay and sandpit quarrying and the quarrying of dimension stone and limestone. The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) lists 701 quarrying operations, 580 of which are operations involved in the quarrying of aggregates and natural sand. The aggregate and sand sector employs approximately 7,500 people and the most recent figures available from the DMR and the Chamber of Mines set the 2012 value of aggregate and sand production of 53 million tons at R4.5bn.

Challenging Conditions

The Aggregates and Sand Producers Association of Southern Africa (ASPASA) classes quarrying as surface mining or open-pit activity, which falls under the industrial minerals sub-section of the mining sector. Thus the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) has oversight over this sector and prescribes the licensing and permit regime under which a quarry can be legally operated. However, a recent investigation by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) concludes in a draft interpretation note presented to parliament that quarrying is not a mining activity, but a manufacturing process. This will have important implications for the sector which is currently struggling in a low growth environment where the roll-out of government’s R847bn strategic infrastructure spend has been slow, thus impacting negatively on demand for quarry outputs.

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		PAGE
1.	INTRODUCTION	1
2.	DESCRIPTION OF THE INDUSTRY	1
2.1.	Industry Value Chain	3
2.2.	Geographic Position	5
3.	SIZE OF THE INDUSTRY	6
4.	STATE OF THE INDUSTRY	9
4.1.	Local	9
4.1.1.	Corporate Actions	11
4.1.2.	Regulations	12
4.2.	Enterprise Development and Social Economic Development	14
4.3.	Continental	15
4.4.	International	16
5.	INFLUENCING FACTORS	17
5.1.	Government Intervention	17
5.2.	Economic Environment	18
5.3.	Rising Input Costs	19
5.4.	Labour	20
5.5.	Technology and Environmental Concerns	21
6.	COMPETITION	22
6.1.	Barriers to Entry	22
6.2.	Research and Development (R&D) and Innovation	23
7.	SWOT ANALYSIS	23
8.	OUTLOOK	24
9.	INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS	25
10.	REFERENCES	25
10.1.	Publications	25
10.2.	Websites	26
	ORGANOGRAM	27
	COMPANY PROFILES	29
	AFRICAN SLATE QUARRIES (PTY) LTD	29
	AFRIMAT LTD	31
	AFRISAM (SOUTH AFRICA) (PTY) LTD	37
	DENRON QUARRIES (PTY) LTD	42
	KEELEY GRANITE (PTY) LTD	44
	LAFARGE MINING SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD	46
	MARLIN HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD	49
	PPC LIME LTD	51
	PPC LTD	53
	RAUBEX GROUP LTD	60
	RED GRANITI SA (PTY) LTD	65
	SOUTH COAST STONE CRUSHERS (PTY) LTD	67
	WEST END CLAYBRICK (PTY) LTD	69
	WG WEARNE LTD	71

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