The mandate of the stand alone Department of Mineral Resources is to ensure transformation, economic growth, health, safety and sustainability of the minerals and mining sector. Its vision is to promote investment in the mineral sector and through regulation ensure a healthier, safer and equitably transformed mineral sector by 2014, and also be a leader in the transformation of South Africa through economic growth and sustainable development by 2025. Its mission includes promoting and regulating the Minerals and mining sector for transformation, growth, development and ensures that all South Africans derive sustainable benefit from the country's mineral wealth.