21 Jul 2017 The literature is replete with articles on the subject supporting these arguments LITERATURE REVIEW A report entitled 39 Critical Review of The Levelised Cost of Energy LCOE Metric 39 by M D Sklar Chik et al published in the South African Journal of Industrial Engineering December 2016 Vol 27 4 is nbsp …

28 Mar 2017 It has been more than a decade since the accident but Vincent Mashinini can 39 t forget the moment his underground world collapsed The traditional coal majors that have dominated the sector for decades are looking to leave South Africa as uncertainty surrounds Eskom contracts and the world slowly nbsp …

16 Sep 2015 Andy explains why he sees this decline in gold and platinum mining and who may benefit The precious metals mining industry in South Africa is going from bad to worse Political changes low metals prices and mines that are getting deeper and tougher to mine are slowly killing the gold sector The South nbsp …

For asbestos workers and communities around the mines the hidden cost of exploitive work practices and mining operations is their health Rich deposits of The last mine closed in 2002 and left in its wake what a South African journalist forecast in 1984 would be South Africa 39 s largest public health disaster 4 Yet outside nbsp …

By Bloomberg 8th December 2017 For the first time in almost a decade more people are dying in South African mines the world 39 s deepest and among the most dangerous There were 81 Omnia files contempt of court case at Foskor over contentious phosphoric acid pricing By Dylan Slater Popular Articles This Week nbsp …

10 May 2001 Twelve mineworkers were killed in an explosion at the Beatrix gold mine on Tuesday May 8 in South Africa 39 s worst mining disaster in two years This low cost low labour production threatens the very existence of the South African gold industry and increases pressure to maximise production at all costs nbsp …

South Africa 39 s mining landscape The 2017 financial year was another tough one for stakeholders in the mining sector Investors in aggregate saw a decrease in dividends and market capitalisation after a cautiously optimistic view on a recovery last year Decreases in precious metal rand prices have put a lot of pressure on nbsp …

21 Jul 2012 483 men and boys were killed in the worst Welsh coal mining disaster on 14 October 1913 at Senghenydd A coal dust explosion was the cause of the tragedy On 1 January 1960 435 miners died in a mining disaster at Coalbrook in South Africa Rock falls and methane poisoning were to blame In Wankie nbsp …

13 Mar 2013 So to maintain production mining companies are turning to more difficult sources that would have been left in the ground if gold prices had been lower From the depths of TauTona in the South African veldt all the way up to Pierina in the Peruvian Andes 4 100 metres above sea level miners are digging nbsp …

14 Feb 2016 Mineworker Themba Mnisi always assumed he would be the one to be trapped underground he never imagined his daughter would suffer this terrible fate He also never thought he would be standing on the sidelines of a mine tragedy desperately waiting for news that his child has been found alive …

31 Aug 2016 Pakiso Matsemela recalls the day he lost the use of his legs joining the long casualty list of a South African mining industry whose accident rate is again Platinum prices for example are still languishing after a global commodities downturn despite a modest recovery this year while improved safety nbsp …

Num threatens strike action in coal sector over wages Tanisha Heiberg Reuters 31 October 2017 Chamber of Mines given until Wednesday to change current wage offer …

By the time that the South African mines were in full production in the late 1890s 100 000 carats a year about 8 of the total were being recovered by searching the De Beers diamonds were sold at something like 1015 less than open market price through a small syndicate of diamond brokers who were also large nbsp …

Few landscapes have seen mining activity on the scale at which it occurs in South Africa 39 s Gauteng City Region GCR The majority of This economic uncertainty was the result of limitations on the production of gold such as the fixed gold price low gold grade inefficient technology and political instability Despite these nbsp …

20 Apr 2015 The effects of mining coal persists for years after coal is removed Dear Readers please refer to this latest article regarding the serious effects of Acid Mine Drainage on the environment and human lives in South Africa This Harvard report was just recently released in October 2016 and is extremely in nbsp …

Uranium production in South Africa has generally been a by product of gold or copper mining In 1951 In July 2016 Sibanye Gold said that over 17 months the deep Cooke 4 operation had failed to meet production and cost targets and losses had accumulated …

20 Jun 2017 If you 39 ve been looking for one recently you 39 ve probably already discovered that graphics cards like the AMD Radeon RX 580 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 are all out of stock with no ETA on their return and sky high prices being asked for second hand cards in local classifieds People mining Ethereum nbsp …

7 Feb 2016 As well as South32 39 s redundancies at its South African manganese mines Lonmin is cutting 6 000 jobs at its platinum shafts in the country key metals and minerals platinum iron ore and coal are among those in which price declines have been most relentless in the latest commodities downturn …

1 day ago One sector which could simply not cope with the consequences is hard rock mining – gold and platinum – which are two of South Africa 39 s big four SAVE THIS ARTICLE EMAIL THIS ARTICLE An electricity utility goes into a 39 death spiral 39 when its price increases drive customers to 39 defect from the grid 39 …

Links and Resources to a large database of Articles and General Information on Mining History South African mining historian Jade Davenport has written a book called Digging Deep – A History of Mining in South Africa The book covers 150 Here are 10 major mining disasters that occurred in the states read more …

3 Aug 2017 In South Africa the mining cost is approximately 15 Miners said MMCZ Applebridge should have a base productivity number in order to understand production costs in regards to labour operations mining costs for use of benchmarking against other countries Chrome miners said mine surveys should be nbsp …

14 Feb 2014 The Environmental Disaster That is the Gold Industry The No Dirty Gold campaign is anchored in its golden rules a set of criteria encouraging the metal mining industry to respect human rights and the It has since dropped to roughly 1 300 though that 39 s still five times its price in the late 1990s …

28 Jul 2016 On 16 September 1986 177 mineworkers were killed at Kinross Mine in one of South Africa 39 s worst mine disasters since 1946 The Kinross mine disaster is one of the worst gold mine disasters in South African history After the This article was produced for South African History Online on 12 Sep 2012 …

22 Jan 2009 COUNTING THE COST GOLD MINING AND OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA JOCK MCCULLOCH ABSTRACT Gold mining has been central to the success of South Africa 39 s economy That labour intensive industry has relied heavily on migrant workers for its …

12 Mar 2013 Article Information Authors Freek Cronje1 Suzanne Reyneke1 David van Wyk1 Affiliations 1Bench Marks Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility CSR North West University South Africa Correspondence to Freek Cronje Postal address North West University Potchefstroom Campus Internal Box nbsp …

16 Dec 2013 The deepest gold mine in the world is Mponeng a 2 5 mile hole in the ground in South Africa At least 10 of the gold in South African mines is stolen Update This article originally called gold quot mostly useless quot which was a reference to the fact that most gold is not used at all except for in cases of nbsp …

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23 Jun 2017 We know that even prior to the gazetting of this charter mining equities had already priced in uncertainty about the charter and the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act amendments Is it surprising then that South Africa 39 s declining sovereign investment grade and the industry 39 s investment nbsp …

16 Sep 2008 From the archive September 17 1986 Rescue workers were last night searching through shafts filled with poisonous gas for more than 150 missing miners feared dead after an underground fire led to one of the worst ever mining disasters in South Africa …

15 Feb 2017 It was not until the gold price which President Franklin D Roosevelt had pegged in 1934 at 35 an ounce began to rise in the 1970s that the mines offered The worst disaster in South Africa occurred in 1960 when 437 miners died at the Coalbrook colliery near Sasolburg in a massive ground collapse …

17 Aug 2016 Despite government efforts to crack down on this illegal form of mining the South African Chamber of Mines and the South African Human Rights Commission The confluence of joblessness easy access to unprotected mines and a surge in the price of gold around 2000 led to a second gold rush for nbsp …

mining articles on News24 in SA rise for first time in decade 2017 12 08 17 42 For the first time in almost a decade more people are dying in South African mines the world 39 s deepest and among the most dangerous Mining production was up 5 2 for October driven by global demand and higher commodity prices …

29 May 2014 Mining should be viewed as economic development in every aspect of life unfortunately the reality is that the total opposite and only mining bosses benefit on the expense of the poor In previous articles published regarding Corporate Social Responsibility by mining companies does exist only on paper but nbsp …

Could one complex mining company merge with another3 Technology may help compensate for Giving the Guptas the finger A South African trader finds an artful way to protest about Jacob Zuma Nov 9th 2017 3 48 from Print edition A share price graph that says up yours to graft2 The loneliest plant on earth …

22 Mar 2017 Just outside the town of Ermelo in Mpumalanga – South Africa 39 s most important coal mining province – Johan Vos 39 farm is littered with derelict and working At Golfview 39 s mines near Ermelo operations ceased after the price of coal steadily declined for several years and the company is looking to sell its nbsp …

Tagged as victims of 39 the world 39 s biggest longest running industrial disaster dwarfing Chernobyl 39 10 000 known silicosis affected southern African gold miners are finally set to negotiate a payout that could induce a painful paroxysm of shareholder coughing across the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Richard Spoor the nbsp …

25 Feb 2011 Over the past century a range of factors fluctuating international gold prices changing demands for mining labor the construction of infrastructure and the need to dispose of mining waste has shaped the development of what is now the most urbanized province in South Africa In particular the nbsp …

A great deal has been written about the first two factors so this article will examine the last factor especially as the special features of mining cuts across the whole of In practice this means that South African manufacturers have to pay import parity prices to the mining companies – i e the same price paid by overseas nbsp …

27 Mar 2017 Mineral Resources Deputy Minister Godfrey Oliphant told parliament that syndicates were well organised and had up to date maps of mining operations A big driver of illegal mining is rising commodity prices It is estimated that about 10 of South Africa 39 s gold production is stolen and smuggled out of the nbsp …

The Pike River Mine disaster was a coal mining accident that began on 19 November 2010 in the Pike River Mine 46 kilometres 29 mi northeast of Greymouth in the West Coast region of New Zealand 39 s South Island A methane explosion occurred in the mine at approximately 3 44 p m NZDT UTC 13 At the time of the nbsp …