South African miners keen to start generating their own power
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CAPE TOWN/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African miner Gold Fields has wanted to build a solar plant at its South Deep gold mine outside Johannesburg for more than three years.But it is still waiting for ministerial approval and a licence from the regulator to build a large generating facility.Red tape has cost miners tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue over the past year, as power blackouts have dented their output at a time when they could have been generating their own power, they..