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Gold mining is a major source of metal and metalloid emissions into the environment. Stud-ies were carried out in Krugersdorp, South Africa, to evaluate the ecological and human health risks associated with exposure to metals and metalloids in mine tailings contaminated soils.
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Gold mining is a major source of metal and metalloid emissions into the environment. Studies were carried out in Krugersdorp, South Africa, to evaluate the ecological and human health risks associated with exposure to metals and metalloids in mine tailings contaminated soils. Concentrations of arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), …
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Proper mitigation has the potential to reduce health risks, but current mining closure legislation only came into effect between the 1970s and 1990s so governments are playing catch-up, according to Digby. "Prior to that, mine owners thought about mining and then closing the gate, locking the key, and throwing the key away," says Digby.
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Mining has a long history in South Africa, beginning with diamonds, and then followed by gold from the 1870s onwards. The gold mining sector has since expanded into the largest in the world, but declining reserves have led to the closure of hundreds of mines around South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg.
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Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic. 2016. The Cost Of Gold: Environmental, Health and Human Rights Consequences of Gold Mining in South Africa's West and Central Rand. McCarthy TS. 2011. The impact of acid mine drainage in South Africa. South African Journal of Science 107(5-6), 01-07. Akcil A and Koldas S. 2006.
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Mining is well known as a potentially dangerous industry that poses many occupational health and safety risks to workers. Every person working on a mine in South Africa is required to have a so-called Red Ticket – a valid medical certificate stating that he or she is fit to work – prior to entering a job site.
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Developing Health and Safety in Mines. The phrase "Zero Harm" is a widely used strapline throughout the mining industry as we try to combat having reached, statistically at least, a …
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A look at the rising costs of gold and silver mining companies –particularly Gold Mining companies—shows that they've climbed too fast. In 2005 when the Gold Price was close to $300 the mines were profitable. Today in South Africa costs are shooting past $1,000 an ounce.
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Special issue Hazards identified and the need for health risk assessment in the South African mining industry W Utembe1,2, EM Faustman3, P Matatiele1 and M Gulumian1,4 Abstract Although mining plays a prominent role in the economy of South Africa, it is associated with many chemical
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Mining health and safety in South Africa is governed by Act 29 of the 1996 Mine Health and Safety Act. The base premise of the act is: • To ensure owner responsibility for health and safety through creation of codes of practise, training, identifying potentially hazardous factors, investigating said factors, employing hygienists for the ...
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Health and safety company Boletshe Trading Enterprise, a black-owned outfit, states that the gold mining industry may cause health hazards for mineworkers and its surrounding communities, as ...
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Platinum mining in South Africa Platinum mining in SA is comparatively recent, supply increasing from 1.76 million ounces (50 tons) in 1975 to a peak of 4.86 million ounces (138 tons) in 2011. Value of 2012 output, about R56billion. SA currently produces about 75% of world production
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from Witwatersrand Gold Mining Basin, South Africa Caspah Kamunda 1,*, ... Abstract: The study evaluates the health risk caused by heavy metals to the inhabitants of a gold mining area. In this ...
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Workers in South Africa's gold mining industry have among the highest incidences of tuberculosis in the world, of between 3000 and 7000 cases per 100,000 population per year, compared with 981 per 100,000 population in South Africa overall and a global incidence of …
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Modelling of Radiological Health Risks from Gold Mine Tailings in Wonderfonteinspruit Catchment Area, South Africa. Manny Mathuthu Center for Applied Radiation Science and Technology, North West University (Mafikeng), P.Bag X2046, Mmabatho 2735, South Africa.
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The South African coal mining industry is technologically advanced and less labour intensive than other sectors of the mining industry. Central to the coal mining industry's approach to improving safety is the removal of miners from working-face dangers and potential health hazards. The industry is guided by extensive health and safety ...
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Mining industry of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Despite declining production, South Africa's gold exports were valued at $3.8 billion USD in 2005. Almost 50% of the world's gold reserves are found in South Africa.
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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 ...
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Artisanal gold mining is risky and leads to labour shortages in small scale farming. It's the rainy season in rural West Africa, a time when most family members would normally be …
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Metal concentrations were applied in a human health risk assessment to estimate health risks. RESULTS Mean concentrations of antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, mercury, molybdenum, nickel and selenium in water samples from South Africa exceeded the World Health Organization guidelines for safe levels of intake.
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Mining is one of the major causes of elevation of naturally-occurring radionuclide material (NORM) concentrations on the Earth's surface. The aim of this study was to evaluate the human risk associated with exposure to NORMs in soils from mine tailings around a gold mine. A broad-energy germanium detector was used to measure activity concentrations of these NORMs in 66 soil samples (56 from ...
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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 depth on the issues of the serious effects of mining on the environment and human health.
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In South Africa, as TB is the main opportunistic disease experienced by people who are HIV positive, the mines' health facilities' TB work has been central to countering the effects of HIV. Mining companies were, from 2002, the first in South Africa – some years before government – to offer comprehensive, mass-based anti-retroviral ...
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The mining industry has a reputation for being a risky business, with health risks that are varied and often quite serious, and it is important for miners to protect themselves accordingly.. Nevertheless, mining doesn't have to be unsafe. With the introduction of strict safety legislation and protocol, as well as advances in safety equipment, the industry has seen its fatality rate drop over ...
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Gold mining in South Africa has been the backbone of the economy for many years. With it came economic well-being, the growth and development of satellite towns, cities and metropolitan cities, e.g. Johannesburg-a place of gold. Unfortunately, it also came with adverse effects, most of which are now evident, after a century of
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However, most studies have documented health effect of gold and mercury mining workers especially in South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Burkinafaso and Zimbabwe( A review of mercury exposure among artisanal small-scale gold miners in developing countries.) that could be replicated to the DRCongo but not yet in coltan mining workers.
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possible health risks in the West Rand gold mining region of South Africa E. S. van Eeden1, E. J. Nealer2 & M. Liefferink3 1School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, South Africa 2School for Social and Government Studies, North-West University, South Africa 3Federation for a Sustainable Environment, Johannesburg, South Africa Abstract
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Mmabatho, 2735, South Africa. 3iThemba LABS (Gauteng), P. Bag X11, Wits, 2050, South Africa. Received 06 November, 2018; Accepted 30 November, 2018 This paper evaluates the potential health risks from dissolved heavy metals in water sources around a gold mining area in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. In this study, 29 samples of water were
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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 …
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Gold mining is a major source of metal and metalloid emissions into the environment. Studies were carried out in Krugersdorp, South Africa, to evaluate the ecological and human health risks associated with exposure to metals and metalloids in mine tailings contaminated soils.
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In South Africa, mining of gold, coal and other natural resources has played a significant role in the country's economy, with both positive and negative consequences.
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In November 2014, Sibanye-Stillwater, Anglo American Limited, AngloGold Ashanti Limited, Gold Fields Limited, Harmony Gold Limited and African Rainbow Minerals Limited formed an occupational lung disease (OLD) industry working group to address issues relating to compensation for OLD in the gold mining industry of South Africa.
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