This paper examines the contribution of three aggregate mining sectors of the South African economy to output and ~ployment over the 1970-97 period. The fmding of a declining importance of mining in output and employment creation must be sectorally differentiated. Gold and Uranium Mining is the chief source of these declines, while evidence for Coal and Diamond and Other Mining is more modulated.
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.
Gold miners have very high rates of tuberculosis. The contribution of infections imported into mining communities versus transmission within them is not known and has implications for control strategies. We did a prospective, population-based molecular and conventional epidemiological study of pulmonary tuberculosis in a group of goldminers.
Radiological hazards associated with exposure to Naturally Occurring Radionuclides Materials from gold mine tailings in the province of Gauteng in South Africa were evaluated. A comparison was made with soil samples from a control area. In this study, gamma spectroscopy was used to measure the activ …
The effects of a changing gold price on the South African gold mining industry. Login. ... Abstract: The importance of gold in the development of South Africa as an industrialised economy cannot be over - emphasised. Towards the end of the 19th century the economy depended almost entirely on the production of gold and diamonds which laid the ...
Gold mining in South Africa typically involves methods such as panning, sluicing, dredging, hard rock mining, and by-product mining. Improved Gold Recovery Economics at Target Gold Mine, South Africa ABSTRACT Target Gold Mine in South Africa, was commissioned as a brownfields operation starting in November 2001.
· Record gold rally TRIPLES South African miner''s profits. South African mining company Gold Fields said on Wednesday that surging gold prices could catapult its half-year profits by more than 300 percent, triggering a ten percent rally in its shares. The company, which earlier predicted that the coronavirus pandemic would have a limited ...
· A fter more than a century of commercial success, gold mining in South Africa is a dying industry.Over the past decade more than 250,000 jobs have been lost. The corporate restructuring of the 1990s has left only four major players: AngloGold, AvGold, Goldfields, and RandGold.
Abstract. In August 2014, the largest seismic event (M5.5) to occur in a South African gold mining district took place near Orkney. The M5.5 event and aftershocks were recorded by strainmeters installed at 3 km depth hundreds of meters above the M5.5 fault, 46 in-mine 4.5Hz triaxial geophone stations at depths of 2-3 km within a hypocentral radius of 2-3 km, and 17 surface strong motion ...
· Abstract. Rising costs, falling ore grades and a stagnant gold price are steadily eroding the economic viability of gold mining in South Africa. This paper explores the major economic dynamics behind the profit squeeze. The empirical analysis highlights the negative effect of the low gold prices—a development which more than drowned out the ...
Venda, Private Bag X5050, Thohoyandou 0950, South Africa Abstract: In South Africa there are about 6,000 abandoned mines and the cost of their rehabilitation is about US$ 10 billion. The main concern here is the tailings dams, most of which are associated with gold mining. Consequently, there is need to identify new strategies for the
Abstract. 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 ...
South African Gold Mining in 1974: The Gold of Migrant Labour The process of extraction of principal minerals is the cornerstone of the South African economy. The mining industry as a whole employs over 300,000 workers of whom at least 600,000 are blacks.
By the mid-2000s Acid Mine Drainage had reached a crisis point in the Gauteng Province of South Africa, the centre of the gold mining industry in that country. This crisis was simply because some ...
Gold sales increased by 3.7% at R72.6 billion in 2019 (R70 billion in 2018) Gold production decreased to 101.3 tonnes in 2019 (117 tonnes in 2018) At the current gold price more than half of the South African gold mining industry is marginal; South African gold only accounts for 4.2% of global gold production
Reuters, 2012). Within the mining sector, the gold mining industry in South Africa not only holds historical value but has also contributed on average 21.1% per annum of the mining income to the GDP from 2002 to 2011 thus making it an important economic sector in South Africa (Chamber of Mines South Africa, 2012).
· 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 reflect on the history and legacy of mining both through observation and through the voices of affected communities.
However, according to South African History Online, these were minor reefs and credit for the discovery of the main reef on Langlaagte Farm went to Australian George Harrison in July 1886. Johannesburg''s large gold deposits that ran for miles underground ensured the little mining town mushroomed into a …
South Africa''s gold production peaked at 1000 t in 1970, while employment on gold mines peaked at 500,000 in the latter half of the 1980s. Mines reached depths exceeding 3.5 km, the greatest mining depths in the world by far. However, rockbursts continued to claim scores of lives each year. Mining-related seismic events first caused serious
· Abstract: Gold mining in South Africa resulted in vast volumes of waste material, mainly in the form of tailings material. Poor management of most of the tailings dams resulted in the release of acid mine drainage that in some cases caused soil degradation and water contamination underneath and around these sites.
Abstract The Witwatersrand region of South Africa is famous for its gold production and a major conurbation, centred on Johannesburg, has developed as a result of mining activity. A study was undertaken of surface and ground water in a drainage system in this area.
The Role of Mining in the South African Economy Johannes Fedderke and Farah Pirouz ERSA, University of the Witwatersrand ABSTRACT: This paper examines thecontribution ofthreeaggregate mining sectors oftheSouth African economy to output and employment over the 1970-97period. The…ndingofadeclining importanceofminingin output and
· The study area is a gold mining area situated some 70 km west of Johannesburg in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. It lies between 26°18'' …
Over 50% of all gold reserves are found in South Africa, with the Witwatersrand Basin remaining the largest gold resource in the world.. In 1975, South Africa was responsible for producing 40% of the gold ever mined. By 2010, however, China affirmed its status as the world''s largest gold producer with production of 324 tonnes of gold, followed by Australia (222.8 tonnes), and South Africa ...
· Gold mines in South Africa have historically been implicated in initiating the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in South Africa. As Packard notes, "The immense size of the mine labor force, over 200,000 on the Rand alone by 1910, together with the appalling health conditions that existed on the mines, ensured that they would play a central role in the early development of TB in southern Africa" [].
The Impact of Gold Mining on Mercury Pollution in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa ... Discrimination of three geologies on the Witwatersrand Basin gold fields, South Africa, using remote-sensing of tree canopy spectral reflectance ... Abstract. A biosorbent based on zeolite and Penicillium simplicissimum (heat-killed fungal biomass) ...
· Abstract. 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.
Abstract: We examine the extent to which two of Africa''s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement policies to enhance backward linkages from the minerals sector.
· TABLE 2 Accident data published in DMEA Annual Report (1990) for all South African mines (surface and underground employees ) Class of mine Year Deaths Death Injuries Injury rate rate All mines 1989 735 1988 674 Gold mines 1989 549 1988 510 Coal mines 1989 54 1988 53 0.99 10097 13.63 0.91 11357 15.38 1.06 8561 16.46 0.97 9576 18.14 0.52 361 3 ...
The application of geophysics to gold exploration in South Africa A.T. Roux Union Corporation Johannesburg, South Africa Abstract. Practically all the gold and uranium produced by the Republic of South Africa is won from the auriferous conglomerates of …
Abstract. South Africa''s mining towns were established by mining companies mostly after World War II. The workforce lived in company-owned or privately-owned houses, or high-density compounds. Since the demise of apartheid, South African government policy for these towns has promoted integrated mining communities and homeownership.
Abandoned gold mine sites are generally characterised by severe environmental problems and physical hazards. Because of socio-economic problems confronting communities around abandoned mine sites, historic and abandoned gold mines have become hot-spots …
The Witwatersrand has been subjected to geological exploration, mining activities, parallel industrial development and associated settlement patterns over the past century. The gold mines brought with them not only development, employment and wealth, but also the most devastating war in the history of South Africa, civil unrest, economical inequality, social uprooting, pollution, negative ...
Abstract. Rising costs, falling ore grades and a stagnant gold price are steadily eroding the economic viability of gold mining in South Africa. This paper explores the major economic dynamics behind the profit squeeze. The empirical analysis highlights the negative effect of the low gold prices—a development which more than drowned out the ...
