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Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses developments around Gold Fields’s potential wind energy project at the South Deep Gold Mine; Copper360's Rietberg underground copper mine opening three months ahead of schedule; and South Africa’s economy can benefit quickly from getting mineral exploration going at pace.