Health & Safety
MINE ACCIDENT
Fatal accident at AngloGold’s Kopanang
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A worker has died in a fall-of-ground accident at JSE-listed AngloGold Ashanti’s Kopanang gold mine, near Klerksdorp on Wednesday.
The deceased was a scraper-winch operator who had worked for the company for 26 years.
By: Henry Lazenby
1st December 2011
MINE FATALITY
Harmony reports fatality at Tshepong mine
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A miner was fatally injured following a fall-of-ground incident at South Africa's third-largest gold miner Harmony’s Tshepong mine, in the Free State on Tuesday morning.
Harmony’s CE Graham Briggs said investigations into the accident are...
By: Henry Lazenby
29th November 2011
SAFETY
Body of missing miner found at Harmony’s Kusasalethu
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Rescue teams recovered the body of a miner, missing since Wednesday, at the Kusasalethu mine on Sunday morning, JSE-listed Harmony Gold said.
The miner disappeared after a seismic event at the mine near Carletonville last week.
21st November 2011
MINE SAFETY
SA to step up mine safety audits over coming months
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The Mineral Resources Department (DMR) will step up its health and safety audits over the festive season and into the first quarter of 2012, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said on Thursday.
Speaking at a Mine Health and Safety Council...
By: Mariaan Webb
17th November 2011
MINE SAFETY
Kumba expands scope of fatigue management pilot project
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A fatigue management system pilot project at mining giant Anglo American’s iron-ore business Kumba Iron Ore is expanding to include a number of new partners for best practice in fatigue management at its Kolomela mine, near Postmasburg, in the...
By: Natasha Odendaal
11th November 2011
Health & Safety
Use of hydraulic and pneumatic starters increasingly popular
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Hydraulic and pneumatic starters are fast replacing their electric counterparts in the mining sector with more mines converting to the preferred technology, according to starting solutions company Powerworks technical director Nick Ruberg.
By: Joanne Taylor
11th November 2011
Health & Safety
Global company awarded shaft sinking and equipping contract for Mopani
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Zambia-based, mining contracting company Murray & Roberts Cementation has been awarded the shaft sinking and equipping of the synclinorium shaft for miner Mopani Copper Mines, Nkana mine, in Zambia.
4th November 2011
Health & Safety
Telecoms giant eager to enlarge footprint in mining
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Telecommunications company MTN intends to increase its operations in the mining sector as the industry continues to use more electronic applications and is gradually demanding modern methods that simplify mining procedures
4th November 2011
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