Elevator plummets at a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11
JOHANNESBURG — An elevator suddenly dropped around 656 feet while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75 — 14 of them critically, the ...Web
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History | Sibanye-Stillwater
About us /. History. Since its initial establishment in 2013, Sibanye-Stillwater has grown and diversified significantly – both geographically and by metal produced. The Group has advanced from a single commodity, South African gold mining company to become an multinational mining and metals processing Group with a diverse portfolio of ...Web
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Impala Platinum halts some South African mines after 11 workers …
TOI. By Felix Njini JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Impala Platinum on Tuesday temporarily halted operations at its Rustenburg mining complex in South Africa after 11 workers died and 75 were injured in ...Web
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'Movement' at South African mine raises possibility of …
In 2009, 82 miners mostly from Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Lesotho died after inhaling toxic gas following a fire in a disused shaft of a different gold mine in Welkom. On Monday, South Africa's ...Web
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The History Of Diamond Mining In South Africa
On January 25, 1905, a 3,106-carat diamond was discovered during a routine inspection by the superintendent of the mine in Pretoria, South Africa. Schalk van Nickerle, a farmer from South Africa, discovered a diamond in 1866 along the Orange River. Fortune seekers soon arrive, leaving their wives and children behind.Web
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PICS | Joint operation leads to more than 100 arrests of
More than 100 suspected illegal miners were arrested in Ekurhuleni on Friday. The joint operation was led by the SA Police Service, the SA National Defence Force and Home Affairs. Tools of the illegal mining trade – including gas cylinders, phendukas, explosives and generators – were seized. A ...Web
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Sibanye brings in Chinese partner for Mopani Copper Mines bid
NAIROBI, Aug 29 (Reuters) - South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater (SSWJ.J) plans to bring in a Chinese investor to form a partnership if it wins its bid to buy Zambia's Mopani Copper Mines, its Chief ...Web
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With Richards Bay Minerals operations resuming is …
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly) – Diversified mining company Rio Tinto announced on Tuesday that it had commenced the process of restarting operations at Richards Bay Minerals, in KwaZulu …Web
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'Movement' Detected at South African Mine Where Dozens …
June 27, 2023, at 5:21 a.m. 'Movement' Detected at South African Mine Where Dozens Suspected Dead, but No Search Operation Yet. A street vendor selling oranges at a taxi rank in Welkom, South ...Web
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Mines in South Africa | Africa Mining IQ
There are currently 22 minerals mined in South Africa: Chrome: 7 Coal: 79 Copper: 4 Diamond: 16 Emerald: 1 Fluorspar: 2 Ilmenite: 3 Gold: 64 Industrial: 43 Iron Ore: 9 Lead: …Web
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Hundreds of workers leave South African gold mine after three …
Hundreds of workers have left an underground gold mine in South Africa after being prevented from leaving for three days. More than 550 workers were being held there against their will, after ...Web
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With Richards Bay Minerals operations resuming is there still …
Richards Bay Minerals is one of the largest businesses in KwaZulu-Natal, with a workforce of about 5 000 people. The company contributed R8-billion to the national economy in 2020 and has also ...Web
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South Africa has 22 operating manganese mines – …
South Africa has 22 operating manganese mines, with only four of them owned in part by Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) …Web
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Green 175 MW power for Sibanye-Stillwater platinum …
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly) – A total of 174 MW of clean, green renewable power is on the way for Sibanye-Stillwater's platinum group metal (PGM) mines in South Africa. The total cost of ...Web
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Mining industry in Africa
Two of the most profitable minerals produced in Africa are gold and diamonds. There are a number of major diamond producing countries across Africa such as South Africa and Botswana. However, the ...Web
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South Africa: R60-Billion Held for Mines that Are Never Closed
South Africa: R60-Billion Held for Mines that Are Never Closed. A data-driven investigation shows that nearly R60-billion is being held in funds for the …Web
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Bodies of 20 suspected illegal miners found near abandoned South Africa
There are 6,000 "derelict and ownerless" managed by South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources, local media reported. Informal mining is not restricted to abandoned mines.Web
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Impala Platinum halts some South African mines after 11 workers …
South Africa has some of the world's deepest, oldest and most costly platinum and gold mining shafts. The deaths at Rustenburg add to the 41 fatalities that had been recorded in South Africa's ...Web
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South African authorities say 31 illegal miners killed in explosion …
Lesotho's foreign ministry recently passed information onto South African authorities on the incident. The mine, which was previously owned by Harmony, South Africa's largest gold-mining company, was last operational in the 1990s, the mineral resources department said. It is located in the city of Welkom in the central Free State …Web
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Sibanye Stillwater Limited (SBSW)
Sibanye-Stillwater reports adjusted EBITDA of $441M in Q1, down 51% y-o-y. (Kitco News) - Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW) reported today that production from its gold operations in South Africa (including DRDGOLD) was 200,267 oz in Q1 2023, up 46% compared with Q1 2022, foll... 7 months ago - Kitco.Web
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The cost of getting South Africa to stop using coal
Still, the logic for South Africa to move to renewables is strong. Its decrepit coal-fired power stations, with an average age of 42 years, are juddering to a halt.Web
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New Technology Aims to Stop An Old Danger in South Africa's Mines
In 1986, 800 South African miners died at work. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa's mines have gradually become safer. Fatalities reached a record low of 51 in 2019 — still almost one per week on average. During the Covid-19 pandemic, those figures rose again, although to nowhere near their apartheid levels.Web
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Kimberley Underground, Northern Cape
Kimberley Underground, which comprises of three diamond mines, namely Bultfontein, Dutoitspan and Wesselton, is located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The expansion plan at Kimberley Underground envisages the production of 135,000 carats per annum (ctpa) of diamonds by 2016. The ore mined from Bultfontein and …Web
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The dark face of South Africa's illegal mining
Diamond mining. By the 1880s, the mines around Kimberley produced around 95 per cent of the world's diamonds. Diamond mining operations had also been concentrated through both legal means and dubious underhand tactics into a handful of corporatised operating entities, most notably De Beers, which is still a major world …Web
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The five largest gold mines in South Africa
There are more than 1322 gold mines in operation globally, of which 127 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 2022, according to GlobalData's mining database, which tracks more than 33,000 mines and projects from …Web
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Three miners killed in accident at Sibanye gold mine in South Africa
In all, 88 people died in mines in South Africa in 2017 and 73 died the previous year. Prior to that, numbers of fatalities had fallen for nine years. The country has produced a third of all gold ...Web
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Ivanhoe Mines Issues Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results, and …
Ivanhoe Mines is a leading Canadian mining company developing and operating its four principal mining and exploration projects in Southern Africa: expanding operations at the world-class Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex (Kamoa-Kakula) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); building the tier-one Platreef palladium, nickel, …Web
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SA gold sites | Sibanye-Stillwater
The Driefontein operation is situated some 70 km west of Johannesburg near Carletonville in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. Exploration in the area dates from 1898, with further exploration activities between 1933 and 1939 resulting in the registration of the West Driefontein Mining Company on 07 th March 1945. This was followed by the …Web
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Home | Sibanye-Stillwater
South Africa; Europe; Australia; Scam alerts; Free Sustainability training; Search for: Search X. JSE: SSW ... 2023 The future of mining in the global economy ... 0800 001 987 – South African operations 1 800 317 0287 – US operations 0 800 772 244 – …Web
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History of mining: five of the oldest mines still in operation
The Skouriotissa mine is said to be the last functioning mine in Cyprus, and possibly one of the oldest in the world, dating back as far as 4,000BC. Operated by Hellenic Copper Mines, Skouriotissa boasts a reported production of 99.99% pure copper metal cathodes, according to 2012 figures. The mine was first founded in 1914 by the Cyprus …Web
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