Sustainable Development in Mining Communities: The Case of South Africa
1 Minerals to Metals Initiative, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; 2 Future Water Institute, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; There is a significant role for the mining and minerals industry to play in …
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Frontiers | Can the South African Milestones for Reducing …
1 Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2 National Institute for Occupation Health, National Health Laboratory Service, ... South African test gold mine dust was dominated by submicron particles, i.e., count median diameter of 0.59 μm and mass mean diameter of 3.92 μm ...
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Princeton
Looking for further research opportunities, he made his first foray into a South African gold mine in 1996, with the help of a former graduate student, David Phillips, who worked for a gold mining company at that time. "It was one day, in and out," Onstott recalls. "I flew in and went down a hole.
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Gold mining, climate change, and Africa's transition
The value of that gold and its contribution to the GDP of those host countries has risen even faster. While global gold mine production has grown by 26 percent since 2010, in Africa it has risen ...
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The Witwatersrand Goldfield, South Africa
Several gold mining companies, institutions, and local geology museums gave permission to photograph their gold specimens; for confidentiality and security reasons, they are not mentioned here by name. I am grateful to various people for their assistance in contributing toward this article. William Besse prepared the locality map …
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Tackling injustices of occupational lung disease acquired in South
South Africa's mineral resources have produced, and continue to produce, enormous economic wealth; yet decades of colonialism, apartheid, capital flight, and challenges in the neoliberal post-apartheid era have resulted in high rates of occupational lung disease and low rates of compensation for ex-miners and their families. Given …
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Department of Geology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, …
South Africa has a large number of gold mines, a wide range of distinct gold deposits formed through different processes in discrete geological environments [21-23], and is also the final destination for gold from all over Africa. Most of the South African gold mines exploit gold hosted in Archean alluvial fans of the Witwatersrand Basin [24-26].
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Optimization of shift cycles in the South African mining sector …
studies conducted in the South African mining industry, and a workshop with technical experts. The Affiliation: 1 CSIR Mining Cluster, South Africa. 2 University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Correspondence to: J.L. Pelders Email: [email protected] Dates: Received: 19 Nov. 2020 Revised: 1 Jul. 2021 Accepted: 8 …
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XRT technology ushers in a new era in diamond recovery
The second is a sub-middles XRT project. This is targeting the recovery of diamonds between 4 mm and 8 mm and will enable the scale of high-cost DMS operations at Karowe to be further reduced. The third project will see a further two units being installed to audit material between 4 mm and 20 mm. "The success of our technology at Karowe …
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De Beers Group Learnerships: Diamond Sorter (Kimberly, Northern …
De Beers Group is offering a Mining learnership for the position of Diamond Sorter. During this one-year programme, the candidate will gain work experience and be exposed to institutional learning with 30% of the focus being on structured learning and the other 70% on practical/ hands-on learning. The aim of the programme is to allow the candidate to …
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History Of Diamonds | Shimansky
One of the major producers of diamonds in South Africa was the Premier Mine. It was established after the discovery of the Cullinan Diamond Pipe near Pretoria in 1902 and has produced some of the world's largest and most famous diamonds, including the Cullinan in 1905 (a 3106.75 carat diamond named after Sir Thomas Cullinan, the owner of the mine).
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Security measures and the combating of diamond theft: case
The theft of diamonds from diamond mines has been a longstanding problem for mine owners in South Africa (7th largest world producer of diamonds by carats). To combat such thefts mining operations have, over the years, instituted various measures, inter alia integrated security measures, and implemented several technological aids to try …
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South African guideline for the selection and provision of …
Committee of the University of South Africa prior to data col-lection (Ethical clearance no: 9016-705-8). Data management was performed using SPSS version 18.0.1. ... study on mine workers in two South African gold mine clinics. 4 Non-compliance predisposes workers to occupational injuries and ill-health: all workers in this study complained of ...
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UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND HISTORY …
South African gold mines and to relate that experience to the process of proletarianization whose history goes back more than one hundred years in South Africa.
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FEATURE ARTICLES L S UNIQUE D PROPOSITION
SOUTH AFRICA Gaborone Orapa Venetia Pretoria Johannesburg Jwaneng LESOTHO Letšeng 0 500 km N I N D I A N O C E E A N A T L A N T I C O C A N Diamond mines Figure 2. This remote village deep in the Maloti Mountains near the Letšeng mine is primarily dedicated to agriculture and sheep herding. Villagers also form the workforce …
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Migrancy and Militance: The Case of the National Union of
The author is a Canada Research Fellow in the Geography Department vf Queen's University, Kingston, Canada He wishes to thank Alan Jeeves, Jean Leger, Wilmot James and David ... 1980; J. McNamara, sBlack Worker Conflicts on South African Gold Mines: 19791982, (PhD thesis,UniversityofWitwatersrand, 1985). 8 AFRICAN AFFAIRS
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The development of a radiometric sorter for South African gold …
Radiometric sorting of South African gold ores using uranium as a tracer has become practical and economical due to the introduction of microprocessors into the …
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Powering Apartheid: The Coalbrook Mine Disaster of 1960: South African
22 J. Crush, A. Jeeves and D. Yudelman, South Africa's Labor Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines (Boulder, CO/Cape Town: Westview Press/David Philip, 1991), 194. On the origins and development of labour migrancy to the mines from Mozambique see P. Harries, Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in …
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From Diamonds to Gold: The Making of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
23 S.H. Frankel, Investment and the Return to Equity Capital in the South African Gold Mining Industry, 1887–1965: An International Comparison (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1967). See also S. Trapido, 'South Africa in a Comparative Study of Industrialization', Journal of Development Studies, 7, 3 (1971), pp. 315–6; S.H. Frankel.
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Compiled by Jonathan Crush
Bibliography of Works on the South African Gold Mining Industry (Post- 1980) Compiled by Jonathan Crush Allen, V. L. The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa: Volume 1, Keighley: The Moor Press, 1992. Arkles, Shelley. "The Price of Gold: Paraplegic Injuries on the Mines." South African labour Bulletin 12/2 (1987), pp. 70-84. Ault, D ...
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'Movement' at South African mine raises possibility of …
In 2009, 82 miners mostly from Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Lesotho died after inhaling toxic gas following a fire in a disused shaft of a different gold mine in Welkom. On Monday, South Africa's ...
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Engineering News
The company is open to procure units for clients in South Africa to trial at their mines, and to show them the benefits of the TDS system," Wills concludes. Phone: +27 (0)11 622 3744
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Dual energy X-ray transmission sorting J of coal o
Deshaling of coal from Witbank Coalfields, South African10 A prescreened –40 mm +20 mm, 2 ton run-of-mine sample from the Witbank coalfields was tested, the XRT sorter pilot plant at Mintek, Randburg South Africa during April 2006. For comparative purposes, a standard float-sink analysis was conducted. A representative sub-sample of 100 kg was
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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 …
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Sorting in the minerals industry: Past, present and future
The minerals industry in the era of digital transition: An energy-efficient and environmentally conscious approach. Examples of water-rich sorting techniques include dense medium separation (DMS), jigs and hydrocyclones. In spite of the historic considerations, due to economic and operational restrictions, water-savvy mineral sorting …
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Assessment of Numeracy Levels of Mine Workers in South …
Mining has been part of South Africa's history since the 19th century. The first prospectors discovered diamonds in 1867 and gold in 1886 (Terreblance 2002). Most jobs in the South African mining industry require manual labour. As a result, these are jobs that are available to illiterate individuals (Hunt Davis 1984;
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The Slow Decline of South Africa's Mines: A Dying Industry or …
With several years invested in mining, South Africa is bringing this industry into the new year with conflict and concerning statistics. Many eyes are on this region as a leading supplier of gold, platinum, coal, and other prominent resources; however, companies relying on these mines are starting to turn to other regions as South Africa …
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Hazards identified and the need for health risk assessment in the South
Morbidity and mortality in South African gold miners: ... North-West University, South Africa, 2010. ... the study revealed that South African mining companies are guided by numerous labor ...
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Migrant mineworkers and South Africa's diplomatic relations with
WNLA and NRC recruited a lot of migrant mine labourers, such that, the South African gold and diamond mines relied heavily on migrant black workers throughout the apartheid era. For more than a century starting from 1906, Botswana and Lesotho were some of the consistent migrant-sending states to South African mines.
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