The Council for Geoscience can confirm that an earthquake occurred in the East Rand gold mine area on the 26 April 2018, at 08:26am South African Standard Time. The earthquake registered a preliminary 3.1 on the local magnitude scale as…
State-funded Council for Geoscience wants to undertake a geological mapping of the whole of SA but needs R20bn over 10 years to complete the project. Less than 5% of the country is covered by geotechnical maps of a 1:50,000 scale,…
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An earthquake occurred on the 28th January, 2018, at 18:03 South African Standard Time, on the Indian Rift at 53.10Ā°S and 9.49Ā°E approximately 2200 km southwest of Cape Town, with a moment magnitude of Mw~6.5. This event was located and…
The South African National Seismograph Network automatic locator detected a seismic disturbance in the West Rand gold mining area on Tuesday, 23 January, 2018 at 17:47 South African Standard Time. The event had a primary magnitude of M=2.8. This is…
Ā The Council for Geoscience (CGS) has announced the appointment of Mr Mosa Mabuza as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The announcement was made this morning by the Chairperson of its Board, Dr Humphrey Mathe. The position was occupied by Mr…
The Council for Geoscience (CGS) has on Monday the 19th of June 2017 handed over geological maps to the Saldanha Bay Municipality. This, as the CGS is currently embarking on an intensive, integrated and multidisciplinary 10 year geological mapping programme…
Sustainable and radical economic transformation of the mining industry will be achieved only once all South Africans share in the wealth beneath our soil. ADDRESS BY THE MINISTER OF MINERAL RESOURCES, HONOURABLE MOSEBENZI J. ZWANE, ON THE OCCASION OF THE…
On Monday evening of the 3rdĀ April 2017 at exactly 19:40, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, whose impact reverberated across South Africa has since had its epicenter located near the Kalahari Game reserve in Botswana (location coordinates -22.470 and 25.040). A network…
What a crazy time. I have five children in colleghigh school graduates.jpge or pursing post graduate studies (ages 18 through 26 for those who were wondering). Each of my children attends college far from home, the closest of which is…
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