million."Mines spend millions of dollars to improve security, but it's difficult to stop gold theft," says Superintendent Piet Otto, head of the Gold and Diamond Theft Department of the South African Police Service. "What we catch is only the tip of the iceberg."He said workers hoping to...
Quest for zero harm in South African deep gold mines The Journal of The Southern African Institute of Mining and MetallurgyW.C. Joughin
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...
Dunbar Moodie, T. "Mobilization on the South African Gold Mines", in D. Meyer, N. Whittier & B. Robnett (eds.), Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.Moodie, T. Dunbar. 2002. Mobilization on the South African Gold Mines. In Social ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror of extracting their bodies from dee...
The effect of HIV on adult mortality: evidence from a large cohort of South African gold-miners with known dates of seroconversion and 10 years of follow-up At the end of follow-up in October 2002, 2744 miners from the cohort were stillemployed on the mines. Among the HIV positive miners...
OBJECTIVES--This two part study aimed to determine whether there was an excess mortality generally or for some diseases among middle aged white South African gold miners on the Witwatersrand and whether the underground dust exposure of these miners contributed to the development of lung cancer, chron...
Mining at deep levels in South African gold mines induces fracturing around an underground excavation, especially in highly stressed zones at depths greater than 1 km.1, 2, 3 In this paper, we discuss the importance of integrating geological information (underground mapping and petrography), ...
Gold mines of the Rand : being a description of the mining industry of Witwatersrand, South African RepublicNot Availabledoi:10.1038/052638a0BROUGHBENNETT HNatureNature
"Our data suggests that to control TB in South African gold mines, we need a "combination prevention" approach with better tests to find TB, prompt treatment for those found to have active TB, increased coverage of HIV treatment and effective TB preventive therapy regimens. Continuous isoniazid ...