Minerals Council South Africa CEO Roger Baxter said on Monday that the council is encouraged by the board level engagement it has undertaken so far with State rail enterprise Transnet and is hoping that this engagement will deliver some very specific results in stabilising rail performance in the short term. Baxter said this in delivering the Mineral Council’s yearly State of the Mining Nation report, together with Minerals Council South Africa president Nolitha Fakude, Minerals Council South Africa chief economist Henk Langenhoven, and Minerals Council South Africa office bearer Themba Mkhwanazi, to the media at an even at which Mining Weekly took part.