They are rarely caught.South Africa is the world's biggest gold producer, and gold is its biggest export earner. But smugglers and thieves are robbing its mines of hundreds of millions of dollars a year at a time when the earnings are needed most.Police and mining sources estimate that 5 ...
The gold in these ultra-deep mines is found in narrow veins, laced through the rock. Some are no wider than a pencil. It's cramped at the rock face and we crouch alongside the miners as they work hunched over in the dark. The noise from the drills is dea...
Follow the journey of gold with unprecedented access to the mines of South Africa and the gold vaults of London. CNBC's Bob Pisani takes viewers inside the trading pits in New York, on to the shop floor of America's largest gold jewelry manufacturer and reveals the never-before-seen largest...
An estimated 93% had worked more than 85% of their mining service in gold mines. Standardised mortality ratios were calculated as the ratios of the deaths observed in the cohort to those expected on the basis of concurrent mortality in the reference population--the total white male population ...
An Outbreak of Lymphocutaneous Sporotrichosis among Mine-Workers in South Africa. The largest outbreak of sporotrichosis occurred between 1938 and 1947 in the gold mines of Witwatersrand in South Africa. Here, we describe an outbreak of ... Nelesh,P,Govender,... - 《Plos Neglected Tropical Dis...
Even today, the economic running of South Africa's gold mines depends largely on the employment of black laborers who are paid about-40 a month, plus room and board and who must work in conditions that can only be described as cruel. About 400 miners are killed in mine accidents in ...
Guy J, Thabane M, 1988, "Technology, ethnicity and ideology: Basotho miners and shaft sinking on the South African gold mines" Journal of Southern African Studies 14 257-278GUY J, THABANE M. Technology, ethnicity and ideology: Basotho miners and shaft-sinking on the South African gold mines...
The union called for "drastic action" to improve the safety standards and procedures at mines. Labor unions have complained about mining companies forcing miners to work in unsafe areas, thus pushing fatalities to "crisis levels." South Africa recorded 88 deaths in the mining sector in 2017 and...
Most were gold miners (about 87% had worked 85% or more of their shifts in gold mines). Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated as percentages of the number of deaths observed in the cohort for a condition as stated on the death certificate divided by the number expected on ...
“MY HUSBAND, Alfie, was a foreman of one of South Africa’s gold mines,” explains Sally. “MY MAN, Alfie, was ’n voorman by een van die goudmyne in Suid-Afrika”, verduidelik Sally. jw2019 An abandoned hotel in the old gold- mining town of Auraria ’n Verlate hotel in...