Signal · Supplier & Corporate Risk
South Africa's August mining output down 12.7% y/y on lower PGMs, coal, iron-ore production
What the source reported
Source-reportedStatistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports that the country's mining production decreased by 12.7% year-on-year in August, with platinum group metals (PGMs), coal and iron-ore having made the largest negative contributions. PGMs production contracted by 22.5%, contributing -6.1 percentage points to the overall figure. Coal production decreased by 11.7%, contributing -3 percentage points and iron-ore output was down by 16.2%, contributing -2.4 percentage points.
- Publication
- Mining Weekly - Latest News RSS · Trade Publication
- Published
- 13th October 2026
- Original report
- miningweekly.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Supplier & Corporate Risk
- Geography
- South Africa
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 13th October 2026 · 11:02
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Moderate (35.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (27.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (31.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth