# The Bureau for Economic Research says South Africa’s mining policy is focusing on the wrong priority by pushing beneficiation before fixing basic production challenges. The bureau criticised the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition’s plan to tax mineral exports to force local processing, which could harm mining and reduce investment. It warns export taxes and quotas could reduce mining activity and jobs. The government is urged to first fix exploration systems and build mining output, and only then consider beneficiation.
Bureau warns beneficiation push could harm South Africa’s mining sector