There are new discoveries of uranium and coal in the Springbok Flats, north of Pretoria. Today, the Council for Geoscience is hosting a conference of 450 engineers, companies, universities and international countries of Venezuela, Nigeria, Europe and New Zealand on "Merging Maps for an Emerging Future" We must meet the Fourth Industrial Revolution with clarity and certainty in our step. As the world of work continues to change, young people known as the digital generation must seize the moment by taking the centre stage. Energy commodities such as lithium, cobalt, vanadium, and platinum will propel economic growth and development. Alongside the battery commodities, industrial minerals are set to drive the industry's contribution to GDP. They include: fluorspar; phosphate rock; vermiculite; limestone; aggregate and sands.