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Feb 01, 2013 The current turbulence in the mining industry in South Africa has its roots in several different factors. First, the fall in global demand for platinum and other minerals due to recession; second, the consequences of the Marikana disaster in destabilising labour relations; and third, the structural character of our mining industry. A great deal has been written about the first two factors, so Aug 27, 2018 The South African Human Rights Commission has released a scathing report on the damage mining in the country is posing to human rights. The conclusion paints a dark picture: "[T]he mining South Africa South Africa Gold mining: Prospectors established in 1886 the existence of a belt of gold-bearing reefs 40 miles (60 km) wide centred on present-day Johannesburg. The rapid growth of the gold-mining industry intensified processes started by the diamond boom: immigration, urbanization, capital investment, and labour migrancy. By 1899 the gold industry attracted investment worth Jun 27, 2019 Uranium (U) measurements in water, soil, and food related to gold mining activities in populated areas in Gauteng Province, South Africa, suggest the possibility of exposure levels that may lead to adverse health consequences, including cancer. Theoretical considerations on pathways of human uptake of significant exposures are plausible, but few data on directly measured human Nov 17, 2014 By Warren Beech, partner and head of mining at law firm Hogan Lovells The various challenges being faced by the South African Exploration and Mining Industry are generally summarised into 8 key challenges, namely: the global financial crisis, and the impact that this has had on global demand, regulatory and legislative uncertainty, infrastructure, ports, rails, [] McGlashan, N.D. and Harington, J.S.: 2000, Cancer in black gold miners, 1980–89 and 1990–94: the Chamber of Mines of South Africa's records of cancer. South African Journal of Apr 04, 2020 The mining industry in South Africa is complex and extensively governed by legislation and controlled by regulation, yet still, there are several issues likely to raise challenges in 2020.. These include proposed amendments to the regulations published in terms of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (MPRDA) relating to retrenchments, the publication of proposed Key figures in the South African gold mining industry The people of mapungubwe. One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe in South Africa's Limpopo province was the centre of the largest kingdom in the subcontinent, where a highly sophisticated people traded gold and ivory with China, India and Egypt from around 1200 to 1300. The average grade of South African gold mining ore has declined from 12 g/t in 1970 to 5 g/t in 2014, as most of the high-grade gold deposits have been exhausted and mines now exploit lower grade The use of mercury in gold mining is causing a global health and environmental crisis. Mercury, a liquid metal, is used in artisanal and small-scale gold mining to extract gold from rock and sediment. Unfortunately, mercury is a toxic substance that wreaks havoc on miners’ health, not to mention the health of the planet.
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