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Trade-gap indicator: South Africa's headline gold mirror-gap (the often-cited ~67% / $78bn figure) is predominantly a gold-reporting and refining/re-export artifact — UNCTAD later walked back its own number; a separate artisanal-gold concern is real but differently sourced. Indicator, not a loss. Method & worked example → Separate context; it feeds no score.
Fraser IAI 2025 (Annual Survey of Mining Companies, released 26 Feb 2026; 68 jurisdictions, 14 in Africa; survey conducted Aug–Nov 2025). All 14 Africa-covered jurisdictions are now PDF-Sourced from Table 1 (back-check 2026-06-24); ∗-marked scores had 5–9 responses (lower confidence). The other 26 Afrimintel jurisdictions are Fraser-Absent: not scored by Fraser in 2025 — most appear on the survey's published dropped-jurisdiction list (<5 responses), the remainder fall outside Fraser's survey coverage. Absent, not Pending) + TI CPI 2025 (Feb 2026 release, full Africa coverage) + NRGI RGI 2021 (latest available; NRGI has not republished since) + EITI implementation status 2026 (binary membership input)
| Asset | Stage | Operator |
|---|---|---|
| Mogalakwena | Op | Valterra Platinum Limited (100%, via Rustenburg Platinum Min |
| Mponeng | Op UG + Extension | Harmony Gold 100% (acquired from AngloGold Ashanti Oct 2020 |
| Phalaborwa | Development (FS target end 2026) | Rainbow Rare Earths (LSE:RBW, AIM:RBW) 100% |
| South Deep | Op | Gold Fields, via Newshelf 899 (Pty) Ltd |
| Venetia | Op | De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited (De Beers Group; Anglo A |
Attribution requires either the country stated in the asset record name, or an externally Sourced enrichment record carrying a named primary source plus independent corroboration (no inference — text-inference attribution was built, tested, and withdrawn pre-deploy after verification caught false positives; see the audit log). 47 distinct platform assets remain Absent pending continuation of the record-enrichment pass (duplicate-flagged records excluded from this count as of v2.22.0). Full asset layer on the platform.