A Western mining executive, standing before a geological map hanging on the wall outside the minister's office, explained why.

So much yellowcake lies below the surface that a mining executive called this place the Saudi Arabia of uranium.

Around 80pc of gold mining executives think the price will climb.

Mr. Foreman's father was a mining executive, his mother a nurse.

His father was a mining executive in Colorado and later in New Mexico.

Bryan was a mining executive of his time.

And Vi, aided by a ghost, metamorphoses into a tyrannical mining executive.

"It's clear that there's a generational change," said a mining executive who spoke on condition of anonymity.

For example, a mining executive complained that the bill assumed "Canadian mining companies are bad corporate citizens".

One mining executive called the news "depressing" and "pretty serious" for all South Africans.