Trends and causes of fatalities in South African mines

In gold mines, rockbursts increase the fatality rate to three times the average at depths below 3000 m. Disasters remain a significant contributor to total fatalities, more …

Mining in South Africa | Harmony Gold Mining Company …

Home » Operations » South Africa Our South African operations produced 1.36Moz in FY22 and the underground recovered grade was 5.37g/t. In the 2023 financial year, we plan to produce 1.4-1.5Moz.

South African miners trapped underground: What you need …

Volunteer rescuers sit by the opening of a gold mine shaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein, South Africa, Friday, November 15, 2024 [Denis Farrell/AP Photo] Published On 18 Nov ...

Gold Operations | South Africa | Sibanye-Stillwater

In South Africa, our gold operations consist of underground mining and surface treatment facilities at Beatrix, Driefontein and Kloof, all situated on the Witwatersrand Basin. We also have a 50.1% stake in DRDGOLD Limited which operates surface tailings retreatment facilities on the West Rand, through the Far West Gold Recoveries operation, and ...

Mine Accidents and Disasters | Department of Mineral …

177 Mine workers were killed on 16 September 1986 at the Kinross Gold Mine in Evander, Mpumalanga. An acetylene cylinder ignited the polyurethane that covered the side-walls …

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Technical Report – National Instrument 43-101 South …

South Deep Gold Mine South Africa Effective Date: 31 December 2021 Prepared by Gold Fields Limited Qualified Person Company Date of Signing Dr Julian Verbeek FAusIMM Gold Fields 30 June 2022 Richard Butcher FAusIMM (CP) Gold Fields …

The five largest gold mines in South Africa

There are more than 1352 gold mines in operation globally, of which 70 are in South Africa, according to GlobalData's mines and projects database. The following are the five largest gold mines by production in South Africa in 2023, according to GlobalData's mining database, which tracks more than 33,000 mines and projects from early ...

Factors that favour and hinder gold mining in South Africa

South Africa has large gold reserves and resources but accessing these will involve going even deeper underground. Mining companies invest heavily in innovation and skills training to build an even greater understanding of the resource base and how to mine it; South Africa has a well-developed infrastructure (roads and railway lines) which ...

Stilfontein Gold Mine Near Klerksdorp, South Africa

chamber of mines of south africa; chamber of mines analysis of working results-1984; chamber of mines analysis of working results-1985; chamber of mines analysis of working results. 1989 gold production = 158, 021 oz from treating 1, 938, 259 mt ore. was updated for the 1992 gold availability study. 1991 production = 112, 174 oz.

Sustainable Gold Mining in South Africa: …

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) identifies three areas where they say mining companies can take decisive action in the short term to unlock the opportunities it believes gold mining in South Africa offers: improving …

Perseus Mining – African focused gold company

Perseus Mining is an Australian mining company that currently operates three gold mines in Africa: Edikan in Ghana, and Sissingué and Yaouré in Côte d'Ivoire. Perseus also owns the Nyanzaga Gold Project in Tanzania and the Meyas Sand Gold Project in Sudan. ... South Africa, Namibia, Australia, Indonesia, Turkey, Philippines and Chile in ...

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Harmony is a global, sustainable gold mining and exploration company with a copper footprint in our Wafi-Golpu and Eva Copper projects.

How we mine

South Deep Gold Mine is a Gold Fields operation in South Africa. ... Our mining methods are very different to most South African deep level underground gold mines. Illustration of mining methods at the current mine and north of wrench . …

Portia Gold Mine

Download map showing Portia gold mine tenements via the South Australian Resources Information Gateway (SARIG) The deposit Stratigraphic succession at Portia includes up to 3 m of 'recent' age sediments associated with aeolian dunes and outwash deposits of the Frome plains underlain by Namba and Eyre Formations of the Tertiary age Lake Eyre ...

List of Gold mines in South Africa

Address: South, Randfontein, 1764, SA. Phone: +27 76 171 5869. 4. Blyvoor Gold Mine. The mine was established in 1937, and it began operations in 1942.It is owned and operated by DRDGOLD.

How SA plans to profit from sky-high gold prices

Once fully ramped up, gold from Mintails will increase the firm's output, currently guided to 180,000 oz/year, to 250,000 oz/year from 2025. Its business case rests on some of the country's oldest gold mines, including Mpumalanga's 70-year-old Evander Gold Mines and Barberton Gold Mines, which has been mined since 1886.

The St Helena Mine Disaster of 1987: Causes, …

The St Helena Mine Disaster occurred in September 1987 at the St Helena gold mine, located near the town of ia in the Free State province of South Africa. This tragic incident resulted in the deaths of forty miners and …

gold mining | Search Results | Statistics South Africa

The decreasing importance of gold mining in South Africa. Monthly gold production reached a new monthly low in January, according to data released by Stats SA1. Although a number of temporary factors might have contributed to the unusually low level, general historical trends show that gold has lost the prominent place it once had in the South ...

Historical gold mines

About 160 kg of gold were recovered as a by-product from the Kanmantoo copper mine between 1969 and 1976. Modern mines: 1975 to present. Olympic Dam - 560 km north of Adelaide, one of the world's most significant deposits of …

The devastating impact of Gold Mining in South …

For 130 years South Africa has been exploiting its gold resources in Johannesburg. But at what cost? 278 abandoned mines and 200 mining dumps, that contain about 6 billion tons of waste, exist in Johannesburg .

Trends in productivity in the South African gold mining …

Seismicity also affects productivity in South Africa's deep gold mines. According to Mining Technology (2015), 'production at TauTona fell to 409 000 ounces in 2007, down from 474 000 ounces in 2006, due to increased seismic activity' The South African gold mining sector is currently locked into existing mine designs and methods, which are ...

Mining sector CEOs in SA are earning staggering salaries

Some of the top-earning South African bosses are raking in over three times that of the highest-paid banking CEOs.. The top five listed all come from the mining sector – an industry that added R425.6 billion to the country's GDP in the last financial year (representing 6.2% of the total GDP).. The mining sector also created over 7 500 jobs, employing a total of …

Brief history of gold mining in South Africa

Separation of up to 96% pure gold was achieved which led to an investment boom as larger gold mines were opened up 1894 Three gold mines established the Rand Mutual Assurance Company, a world pioneer in workmen's compensation 1898 Gold output soared to 118 tonnes making South Africa the world's leading producer 1899 - 1902

What to know about a standoff between police and illegal …

The problem of illegal mining in South Africa. Illegal mining has been underway for decades, on the back of the country's once booming mining industry.. The illegal miners — known as zama-zamas or "hustlers" in the Zulu language — search for gold and other precious metal deposits at old and abandoned mines that have been closed or where mining has been halted.

Gold mining's potential in West Africa

The mine, Cardinal Namdini, is due to be commissioned in November 2024 and is expected to produce more than 350,000oz of gold per annum. ... South Africa Gold Mining to 2024 - Updated with Impact of COVID-19 . Reports. Precious Metals and Diamond Mining in South Africa to 2023 .

SA gold sector in deep decline despite record prices says

THE record high gold price has not been able to stop the "deep structural decline" of South Africa's gold sector according to Minerals Council chief economist Hugo Pienaar.. Reviewing the latest mining production and minerals sales statistics released by Stats SA for the second quarter of 2024 Pienaar said that manganese and chrome were the only sub …

Gold mining: Knysna's Millwood gold fields

SABIE & PILGRIM'S REST: The little tourist town of Pilgrim's Rest in Mpumalanga saw a brief boom - and South Africa's first modern-era gold rush ... The diggings included the Bendigo Mine - whose "tunnel had gold all over it and its walls glistened with gold in the lamplight" (Tapson, ibid.) - and some of the more successful outfits ...

More than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining …

About 1,000 miners were in the mine at the time and 435 died after being trapped, while the rest escaped through an incline shaft. The miners were suffocated by methane gas …

Destitute South Africans and migrants risk their lives in …

The informal mining extraction also creates an economic burden to South Africa as a whole, he added, explaining the nation does not receive the royalties that official mining …

Gold Fields South Deep Gold Mine

South Deep Gold Mine is a Gold Fields operation in South Africa. ... South Africa, 2196 Tel: +27 11 562 9700 Fax: +27 11 562 9838. South Deep Gold Mine. Old Vereeniging Road Farm Modderfontein Westonaria, 1780 Tel: +27 11 411 1000 Fax: +27 11 411 1521. Visiting Our Offices HOST VISITOR.