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The study evaluates the health risk caused by heavy metals to the inhabitants of a gold mining area. In this study, 56 soil samples from five mine tailings and 17 from two mine villages were collected and analyzed for Asernic (As), Lead (Pb), Mercury (Hg), Cadmium (Cd), Chromium (Cr), Cobalt (Co), Nickel (Ni), Copper (Cu) and Zinc …
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Gold mining started more than a century ago in the Witwatersrand gold elds, South Africa (Durand, 2012;Hobbs et al., 2010;Phillips and Law, 2000).
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Moonbound Mining Ltd. is a mineral exploration company focused on exploring and exploiting potential world-class hard-rock lithium projects in Africa. The …
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Objectives: Between the 1980s and 2000s, an epidemic of silicosis was identified in migrant black gold miners, many from neighbouring countries, who had worked in the South African gold mines. This study uses the newly available employment database of a large gold mining company to demonstrate how a sustained rise in …
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Mining alters the natural landscape and discharges large volumes of wastes that pose serious pollution hazards to the environment, to human health and to agriculture. As a result, the recent 2 decades have witnessed a global surge in research on post-mining landscape restoration, yielding a suite of techniques including physical, chemical, …
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Data exclusively provided to MiningMX by Sibanye-Stillwater shows that there were 581 recorded illegal mining incidents around the company's South African gold …
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Burkina Faso has nationalized two contested gold mines, Wahgnion and Boungou, following a legal settlement between Endeavour Mining Plc and Lilium Mining.
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Despite increased restrictions and security measures imposed on abandoned gold mines by the South African government amidst recent deaths and the ongoing debate about the place of 'illegal mining', unlicensed miners, known as 'zama zamas' continue to insert themselves into the economy by engaging in practices of scavenging, …
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An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content. ... Labour in the South African Gold Mines, 1911–1969. By Francis Wilson. Cambridge: The University Press, 1972. Pp. xviii–218, illus., appendices, bibliog., index. $14.95 (in U.S ...
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Methods This study analysed the major South African ... [Show full abstract] mining recruitment database for the period 1973 to 2012 by calendar intervals and demographic and occupational ...
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Mining is a source of extraordinary wealth, but its benefits often do not accrue to the workers and communities most involved. This paper presents two case studies of mining in South Africa to ...
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The majority of South Africa's gold mining is confined within the Witwatersrand Goldfields and, to a lesser extent, in Mesoarchean greenstone terranes …
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A multi-disciplinary study of the response of the rock mass to mining and mining-induced earthquakes has been conducted in six gold mines in South Africa at sites deeper than 3 km, or with ...
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abstract = "Analyzes changes in the origins and characteristics of migrant workers from the late 19th century to the present. Explains the political and economic advantages to the government and the mines of using migrant labour on short-term contracts and its relationship with apartheid, the decreasing reliance on labour from neighbouring …
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The Witwatersrand Basin is the heart of South Africa'a gold mining industry. The cluster of gold mines located in the Witwatersrand Basin generates a significant amount of mine tailings, which ...
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Although mining is a cornerstone of the South African economy (), it generates copious amounts of dust. 1 The dusts may be toxic since they may also be contaminated with various toxic metals.For this reason, the prevalence and severity of occupational diseases in the mining industry depends on the ores mined, the …
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abstract = "In South Africa, Zama Zama mining is a colloquial term referring to artisanal mining. This type of mining is illegal, seeing that these mining activities are conducted without a mining license. ... This article suggests an alternative, more proactive approach by exploring the drivers of artisanal gold mining in South Africa and ...
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gold mining in south africa The discovery of gold in the late 19 th century spawned the development of the city of Johannesburg, Egoli, or the City of Gold, and numerous towns around the gold diggings, including Barberton and Pilgrim's Rest.
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Abstract South Africa's gold mines were the first to compensate silicosis and tuberculosis as occupational diseases. They were also the first mines to introduce a state-sanctioned regime of medical surveillance. Despite those innovations, the major mining houses are currently facing class actions by former miners with occupational lung disease. ...
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The assessment and prediction of mine water rebound has become increasingly important for the gold mining industry in South Africa. The cessation of mine dewatering has led to large volumes of contaminated discharges in the western parts of the Witwatersrand Basin.
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Labour Districts in South Africa's Mining History. African labour was central to the development of the mining industry. After the discovery of gold in the …
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Gold mining in South Africa resulted in vast volumes of tailings, which have been deposited in impoundments. Poor management of most of the tailings dams resulted in the escape of seepage, adversely affecting soils and water quality. Some tailings dams have been partially or completely reclaimed leaving contaminated footprints. These zones …
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Mining in South Africa has reached ultra-deep levels, approaching 4000m, requiring appropriate mining practices which stabilize ground conditions.
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Objectives: To establish whether a specific community in a gold mining area, with potentially associated small-scale gold mining activities, was exposed to mercury. Methods: The community was situated in Mpumalanga, where some potential sources of mercury emissions may have an impact. Adults >or=18 years were considered eligible. …
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This chapter provides an overview of deep-level gold and platinum mining in South Africa, highlighting the status quo of the industry and some of the associated challenges and explains how applied ...
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Background: Given the intimate association between silicosis and tuberculosis, understanding the epidemiology of the South African gold mining industry silicosis epidemic is essential to current initiatives to control both silicosis and tuberculosis in this population, one of the most heavily affected globally. The study's objectives were …
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Abstract. Background. Crystalline silica and asbestos are common minerals that occur throughout South Africa, exposure to either causes respiratory disease. Most studies on silicosis in South Africa have been cross-sectional and long-term trends have not been reported. ... The first theme addresses trends in silicosis in the South African …
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Merensky Reef in 1926, leading to South Africa now pro-ducing 78% of the world's platinum. Other world-class deposits of the modern era include iron from Sishen and manganese from Kuruman. Keywords Diamonds · Gold · Mining · Minerals · Platinum · South Africa 4.1 nI troduction The mineral wealth of South Africa has been exploited by
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The 1886 discovery of significant gold reef deposits on the range of hills known as the Witwatersrand, Footnote 11 would change the course of southern African history. As summarised by John Illife, the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand set South Africa on a different colonial trajectory from the rest of the African continent, gradually …
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Abstract. Gold mining has been central to the success of South Africa's economy. That labour intensive industry has relied heavily on migrant workers for its profitability. In the past decade, scientists in Johannesburg and Cape Town have identified a pandemic of the serious occupational disease silicosis among gold miners.
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