beneficiation
in relation to any mineral resource, means the following –
| a) |
primary stage, which includes any process of the winning, recovering, extracting, concentrating, refining, calcining, classifying, crushing, screening, washing, reduction, smelting or gasification thereof; |
| b) |
secondary stage, which includes any action of converting a concentrate or mineral resource into an intermediate product; |
| c) |
tertiary stage, which includes any action of further converting that product into a refined product suitable for purchase by minerals-based industries and enterprises; and |
| d) |
final stage, which is the action of producing properly processed, cut, polished or manufactured products or articles from minerals accepted in the industry and trade as fully and finally processed or manufactured and value added products or articles. |
Statistics Act, 1999
