beneficiation, noun

Origin:
See beneficiate.
Mining
The processing of raw materials where they originate, to increase their economic value locally, instead of exporting or selling them in unrefined form. Cf. beneficiate.
Note:
Used originally with reference to minerals, now applied in other contexts.
1994 N. Mandela in Inaugural Address as President of South Africa 9 MayBy encouraging investors and the democratic state to support job creating projects in which manufacturing will play a central role we will try to change our country from a net exporter of raw materials to one that exports finished products through beneficiation.
2005 T. Mbeki in Address by the President of South Africa to the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy 24 Feb...Africa is a huge mining continent. Yet, the beneficiation of the raw materials has, for many years been done exclusively in Europe. Accordingly, a process of building a strong value addition capacity in the mining industry has started, beginning with South Africa.
2017 dailymaverick.co.za (DSAE Corpus)According to the report on economic transformation, radical transformation was about fundamentally changing the structure of South Africa’s economy from an exploitative exporter of raw materials, to one based on beneficiation and manufacturing, in which our people’s full potential can be realised.
2025 C. Ramaphosa in Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting 12 Feb.We will champion an inclusive G20 framework on green industrialisation and investment to promote value addition and beneficiation of critical minerals.
The processing of raw materials where they originate, to increase their economic value locally, instead of exporting or selling them in unrefined form. Cf. beneficiate.
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