{"id":17836,"date":"2026-07-14T18:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/?p=17836"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:53:23","slug":"south-africas-mining-sector-takes-a-hit-as-output-falls-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/south-africas-mining-sector-takes-a-hit-as-output-falls-5-4\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Mining Sector Takes a Hit as Output Falls 5.4%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stats SA said lower output from iron ore, coal and platinum group metals weighed on the sector, even as mineral sales remained firmly in positive territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Africa&#8217;s mining sector lost momentum in May, with production contracting after two months of strong growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mining production fell by 5.4% year-on-year in May, reversing April&#8217;s 8% increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said lower output from iron ore, coal and Platinum Group Metals (PGM) weighed on the sector, even as mineral sales remained firmly in positive territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stats SA said the three commodities, iron ore production followed by coal and PGM, accounted for most of the overall decline in mining output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a seasonally adjusted basis, mining production was down 5.2% from April, while output over the three months to May fell 1.7% compared with the previous three-month period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite weaker production, mineral sales increased 13.9% from a year earlier, supported by a 70.5% surge in PGM sales, along with gains in gold and coal. However, a sharp decline in iron ore sales offset some of those gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While demand and prices continue to support mining revenues, production challenges continue to weigh on one of South Africa&#8217;s key export industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stats SA said lower output from iron ore, coal and platinum group metals weighed on the sector, even as mineral sales remained firmly in positive territory. South Africa&#8217;s mining sector lost momentum in May, with production contracting after two months of strong growth. Mining production fell by 5.4% year-on-year in May, reversing April&#8217;s 8% increase&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17839,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions\/17839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}