AngloGold urges quick silicosis redress, lawyer says less dust will cut incidence, RBC eases $100bn implied-damage sum

South Africa’s largest gold miner is urging quick action on a compensation structure for silicosis sufferers; a lawyer says that the cutting of dust levels to 0,1mg/mm2 will reduce the rising silicosis problem;and analysts have backtracked on...

AngloGold urges quick action on silicosis compensation

South Africa’s largest gold miner is urging quick action on a compensation structure for silicosis sufferers. AngloGold Ashanti CEO Mark Cutifani tells Mining Weekly Online in a video interview that he would like to see the industry arriving at...

SA mining health compensation seen as complex, overlapping

Besides having significant monetary and safety challenges, the mining industry is also faced with the challenge of regulated health compensation issues. Compensation anomalies relating to health issues, such as silicosis and noise-induced hearing...

Statutory mining health compensation seen as complex, overlapping

Besides having significant monetary and safety challenges, the mining industry is also faced with the challenge of regulated health compensation issues. Compensation anomalies relating to health issues such as silicosis and noise-induced hearing...

SA court to hear former AngloGold miner's appeal case

The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein will hear an argument on Thursday, in the appeal of a sick Eastern Cape miner who is suing South African gold major AngloGold Ashanti for R2,6-million. Former miner Thembekile Mankayi alleged that he...

Court rules in favour of AngloGold in R2,7m silicosis case

The Johannesburg High Court on Thursday ruled in favour of gold-miner AngloGold Ashanti in terms of a R2,7-million occupational health disease claim lodged by a former employee, Thembekile Mankayi. The ruling had also settled a dispute on whether...

Mining industry says 95% of dust measurements will be below global limit by December

Silicosis continues to be a major health challenge for South Africa's mining industry, despite the funds that have already been expended on trying to research the incurable occupational lung disease. The mining industry has declared that, by...

95% of dust measurements will be below global limit by December, mining industry declares

Silicosis continues to be a major health challenge for South Africa’s mining industry, despite the funds that have already been expended on trying to research the incurable occupational lung disease.

Judgement in landmark occupational health case expected within a month

The second day of the High Court hearing, which could open the floodgates to claims from mine workers to sue their employers, came to an end on Tuesday afternoon. Judge Meyer Joffe reserved judgement in the case between an ex-mineworker who...

Precedent-setting silicosis case under way in Johannesburg

A High Court hearing to determine whether or not former mineworker Thembekile Mankayi, who was discharged after contracting silicosis, will be entitled to sue gold major AngloGold Ashanti for damages, will enter its second day on Tuesday. Much of...

Silicosis case tests law's limit

Pending law suits concerning the compensation of ex-mineworkers who suffer from occupational lung diseases will test the limits of reparation legislation, and the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act (Odmwa), in particular.