Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) receives mining statistics from the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME), and publishes them in its monthly release Mining: Production and sales (P2041). Owing to system failures, DME was unable to supply Stats SA with the required data as planned to publish the results on Thursday 12 June 2008. Accordingly, owing to circumstances beyond its control, Stats SA has regrettably delayed the publication of the April 2008 mining release by one week to Thursday 19 June (at 8:00).
Stats SA apologises to users for the inconvenience of the delay, and through ongoing interaction with DME will endeavour to avoid future delays in the publication of the monthly mining release.