Middelbult, 13 May 1993

The South African coal sector has seen vast safety improvements over the past years and South African coal mines are among the safest mines in the world today. Significant strides in improving industry safety and health performance have been possible through the collaborative efforts of employees and unions, the support of the …

How South Africa's recent floods compel climate action

The partnership aims to mobilize $8,5 billion over 3-5 years to bring South Africa's carbon emissions within the Paris Agreement targets by shifting away from fossil fuels to renewable sources. Renewable energy has already created over 55,000 jobs in the country, and, in Mpumalanga alone, up to 72,000 energy transition jobs can be created ...

Disasters in Mine: Strategies for Prevention, Management …

According to Dash et al. (), inundation, roof fall, workplace accidents, fires are the major health and safety hazards in the mining industry (Dash et al. 2017).Manual operation and automatic operation of mining both are well connected with disasters. The disruption of the functioning of mines leads to widespread human, material or …

South Africa's Economic Transformation since 1994: What …

While there was a shift in political power in 1994, the struggle for social and economic transformation remained unresolved (Luiz 2007). The country's complex social and economic history had entrenched widespread unemployment, poverty, inequality and a lack of competitive capacity, while the volatility of the 1980s had further ravaged the …

A disastrous past

A REVIEW of coal mine disasters over the past 45 years in Australia, South Africa and the United States can give todays mine management clues on how loss of life in mines can be avoided. Today International Longwall News looks at past disasters before tomorrow reviewing how to prevent these catastrophes reoccurring.

Water Crisis in South Africa: Causes, Effects, And Solutions

Unfortunately, South Africa's consistent population increases are spelling trouble for a vastly underprepared water infrastructure. This, combined with low rainfall in recent years, has caused a severe and trying water crisis, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Cape Town water shortage that affected the life of residents in 2018.. …

Stemming fatalities on South African mines: Part 3

December 2021 marked the second consecutive year of regression in safety on South African mines with falls of ground (FOG) and transport-related accidents being the leading causes of fatalities. In Part 3 of our series on Stemming Fatalities on SA mines, Industry stakeholders shed some light on the challenges faced in addressing transport …

South Africa – Mining by the numbers, 2023

Mining M&A deals in South Africa have been minimal over the past few years, with all five deals completed in 2023 focused on the PGM sector. In recent years, South Africa's gold industry has struggled, and production — the cornerstone of the country's economy for decades — has been declining.

Research trends in mining accidents study: A systematic …

News coverage of mining accidents or mining disasters has a significant influence on society. Research was conducted by Zhu et al. (2018) on 222 coal mining disasters in China between 2004 and 2012. They found several impacts of mining disaster news items on society, such as: i.

Mine Accidents and Disasters | Department of Mineral …

MINE ACCIDENTS AND DISASTERS. The overall number of deaths in the South African mining industry has declined over the past decades, but the greatest impact of mining accidents is noticed amongst the family members and colleagues left behind after a …

Lessons from mining accidents in 2022

Over 3.3 billion tonnes of metals are produced each year globally as the mining sector offers raw materials, minerals, and metals essential to the economy, and the global mining sector is showing no signs of slowing down. ... A mining disaster in Western Ghana killed 17 and wounded hundreds, prompting criticism of the country's industry's ...

Stemming fatalities on South African mines: Part 3

December 2021 marked the second consecutive year of regression in safety on South African mines with falls of ground (FOG) and transport-related accidents being the leading causes of fatalities.

The world's worst coal mining disasters

Coalbrook mine disaster (1960) – South Africa. Coalbrook mine disaster took place on 21 January 1960 at the Coalbrook North Mine of the Clydesdale Colliery near burg, Orange Free State, South Africa. Directly leading to the deaths of 435 it is the worst ever disaster in South Africa's mining history.

Putting the shine back into South African mining

facing South African mining Over the past decade, the South African mining sector has stagnated. In real terms, the sector's value declined by 4 percent between 2007 and 2017. That decline is reflected in jobs numbers, too. Mining employment fell from a peak of 518,000 in 2008 to 464,000 in 2017.

Tailings Dam Disaster in South Africa: Lessons for mining

The Jagersfontein Mine disaster in South Africa On sunday,11 September 2022 the world once again woke up to a tailings dam disaster, this time at Jagersfontein Mine in South Africa's Freestate ...

Mining fatalities reach a new low of 49; injuries

South Africa's mining industry suffered 49 fatalities in 2022 – a 34% improvement on the 74 fatalities of 2021 and a record low, thereby continuing the …

Golden river of toxic waste from South African mining disaster …

A collapsed dam at a diamond mine in South Africa recently released a torrent of mining waste into the surrounding area. A new satellite image shows the trail of dried and potentially toxic mud ...

Mine deaths in South Africa rise for second consecutive year

Deaths in South Africa mines, which include the world's deepest gold and platinum operations, rose for a second consecutive year as worker safety deteriorated.

Mining fatalities reach a new low of 49; injuries

South Africa's mining industry suffered 49 fatalities in 2022 – a 34% improvement on the 74 fatalities of 2021 and a record low, thereby continuing the downward trend many in the mining ...

Fall of ground safety incidents under the spotlight

The South African Chamber of Mines notes that fall of ground related safety incidents have been a significant area that joint industry efforts have focused on most intensively over the past several years. Search. DRC-Africa Battery Metals Forum. DRC Mining Week. Nigeria Mining Week ... She is a contributor at Mining Review Africa …

The catastrophic failure of the Jagersfontein tailings dam: An

This study provides a sociohistorical account of decisions made over a 150-year period about the Jagersfontein mine in South Africa's Free State and the …

South African Mining 2024 Outlook: Navigating Challenges …

The year 2023 proved to be an exceptionally demanding period for the global mining industry, with South Africa facing multifaceted and far-reaching challenges. These challenges have pushed the sector into a state of crisis-mode management, which has become the norm in the management of South African mines.

The catastrophic failure of the Jagersfontein tailings dam: An

Our study provides a sociohistorical account of decisions made about the Jagersfontein mine in the Free State province of South Africa (Map 1) and the catastrophic failure of its tailings dam that occurred in the early morning of September 11, 2022.The failure resulted in the sudden and uncontrolled release of more than 6 million m 3 of …

Mining Sector Report 2022

difficult for mining companies to invest in new technology and equipment, as the unreliable power supply makes it difficult to plan for the future. With high employment numbers, the mining sector in South Africa is a key socio-economic contributor.2 However, over the past 26 years, there has been a steep decline in the number of

Powering Apartheid: The Coalbrook Mine …

23 South African miners suffer from many respiratory diseases, including emphysema, pneumonia, asthma and bronchitis. A study of older gold miners (over 37) in South Africa in 2006 found that …

Platinum Mine Accident Kills 11, Injures 75 in South Africa

Dozens of mineworkers are killed each year, though numbers have been falling as safety standards have been stepped up over the past two decades. There were about 50 mining deaths in 2022, according to government statistics. Several mine workers were killed at the same Rustenburg Implats mine in 2021, after a mudslide hit one of the …

Trends and causes of fatalities in South African mines

The total of over 800 deaths in TABLE 4 Number of disasters and fatalities in disasters for all South African mines (surface and underground) Decade Number of disasters Deaths in disasters 1900-09 34 718 1910-19 51 464 1920-29 31 461 1930-39 48 615 1940-49 31 425 1950-59 51 465 1960-69 48 1041 1970-79 46 539 1980-89 54 834 …

Climate Change In South Africa: 21 Stunning Facts About South Africa…

Since 1980, there have been 86 weather-related disasters, which have affected more than 22 million people and have cost more than R113 billion in losses. ... in April 2022, severe flooding in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa resulted in over 400 fatalities, with more than 12000 houses destroyed and more than 40000 people …

Underground Mining Self-Escape and Mine Rescue …

While a clear decreasing trend in mining disasters and year-to-year fatalities has occurred through 2010, the past decade of year-to-year fatalities across the mining industry has remained flat. Despite progress made in disaster mitigation in the wake of the 2006 MINER act and the 2010 Upper Big Branch disaster, there has been …

Rustenburg, South Africa mining accident: 11 …

An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 metres (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday.