Despite the world’s top 40 miners consolidating their performance of the past several years, they are “not getting the credit for it”, according to consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC’s) ‘Mine 2019: Resourcing the Future’ report, which provides key trends for the mining industry and PwC’s view on what those trends hold for the future. According to PwC partner Andries Rossouw, the market is affected by the impact of macroeconomic volatility in the form of a constrained global economic growth outlook and trade wars.