Implats accident claims 11 lives
Mzila Mthenjane, CEO of the Minerals Council SA, gives us a sense of mining safety in the country and the significant strides made in this respect.
Source: moneyweb.co.za
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Reutech Mining wins Rock Hazard Identification and Safe Removal Innovation Challenge
Reutech Mining walked away winners of the Rock Hazard Identification and Safe Removal Innovation Challenge. At the beginning of 2022, the Minerals Council South Africa and the Mandela Mining Precinct, in collaboration with Sibanye-Stillwater and Impala Platinum, set out to identify novel solutions in rock hazard identification and safe rock removal for further development, testing
Source: miningnews.co.za
Mines count the human cost of Covid and work-related fatalities
Covid claims 749 miners' lives; work-related fatalities increase, but better news in controlling diseases such as TB.
Source: moneyweb.co.za
SA was aiming to end mine fatalities - instead, more miners are dying
Getty Images The year 2019 was the safest year on record with 51 deaths. SA's deep gold mines, followed by platinum, lead the sector in terms of high fatalities. Although South Africa's mining industry has been aiming to reduce mine fatalities to zero, the latest figures instead show an increase. On Thursday, the Minerals Council of South Africa (MCSA) said a total of 32 mineworkers had died to date this year in the country's mines – an increase from the rate seen a year ago. In 2020, as the industry navigated the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic – which hobbled full capacity operati...
Source: news24.com