A fire at the Kinross gold mine Mpumalanga, South Africa, caused one of the deadliest mining disasters in the country's history. A fuel tank ignited a fire underground, sending flames and toxic ...

An accident at a platinum mine in South Africa has killed 11 workers and injured 75, the mine's operator says. Impala Platinum chief executive Nico Muller described it as the "darkest day" in the ...

South Africa 's mining industry suffered 49 fatalities in 2022 – a 34% improvement on the 74 fatalities of 2021 and a record low, thereby continuing the downward trend many in the mining ...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain. Jagersfontien, a small town in the middle of South Africa with over a century of mining history, awoke to a tragic failure of responsibility on 11 September ...

As of 2023, the number of fatalities in the South African mining industry reached its lowest level, with 54 recorded fatalities. This presents an increase from the previous year, which reported 49 ...

Impala Platinum on Tuesday temporarily halted operations at its Rustenburg mining complex in South Africa after 11 workers died and 75 were injured in what the CEO said was "the darkest day" in ...

Mining groups expected to comply with global standard next year. Sept 23 (Reuters) - The collapse of a tailings dam in South Africa earlier this month has put the spotlight on the need for binding ...

According to Dash et al. (), inundation, roof fall, workplace accidents, fires are the major health and safety hazards in the mining industry (Dash et al. 2017).Manual operation and automatic operation of mining both are well connected with disasters. The disruption of the functioning of mines leads to widespread human, material or …

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 …

The collapse of the slimes dam – a dam with an embankment that stores by-products from mining – swept away homes and cars and flooded the town in a toxic …

In April 2022, heavy rains, flooding, and subsequent mudslides hit the KwaZulu-Natal coast in South Africa. While efforts are underway to establish the extent of the damage, hundreds of lives have been lost, with many more still missing. When visiting the disaster-struck areas around the city of Durban, South Africa's president, Cyril ...

An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the …

It was, in the words of researchers from the University of Kinshasa, an "unprecedented environmental and human disaster." The university's Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center ...

The South African Human Rights Commission and Mphokane identified that there is limited research dealing with the challenges of disasters related to illegal mining in South Africa. In this context, there is a need for further research that will consider strategies to address the issues and challenges related to abandoned mines and illegal gold ...

The disaster unfolded at about 6am in the diamond mining town, which is situated in the Kopanong local municipality. ... "Our TSFs in South Africa are at the highest risk of failure because they ...

In 1986, more than 175 gold miners died in a fire in the Kinross mine, 100 miles east of Johannesburg. Mining officials say some 69,000 mine workers, most them black, have been killed in ...

by Yeshiel Panchia. The Coalbrook Mining disaster of 1960 laid bare how multiple echelons of the mining sector dovetail to affect safety. While the industry has improved by orders of magnitude since then, South Africa's greatest mining tragedy still has lessons to teach us, if we are willing to learn.

A mine operator says an elevator suddenly dropped about 650 feet while carrying workers to the surface in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75. ... The country had 49 fatalities from all mining accidents in 2022, down from 74 the year before. Deaths from South African mining accidents have steadily decreased from nearly 300 in the …

While global mining disasters have decreased in the 21 st century, ... Contributing over 8% of South Africa's GDP, the mining industry cannot be discounted as one of the major contributors to the national economic output. On 5 August 2010, 5 years prior to the Lily Mine collapse, the San Jose mine-collapse in Chile captured the …

The Senghenydd Colliery Disaster happened on Oct. 14, 1913, during a period of peak coal output in the United Kingdom. The cause was most likely a methane explosion that ignited coal dust. The death …

Worst Mining Disasters In Human History The threat of mine collapses, explosions, floods, and mineral dust damaging one's lungs are always at the back of the minds of miners all over the world. ...

23 South African miners suffer from many respiratory diseases, including emphysema, pneumonia, asthma and bronchitis. A study of older gold miners (over 37) in South Africa in 2006 found that 35 per cent tested positive for silica-induced pulmonary tuberculosis: J.M. teWaternaude, R.I. Ehrlich, G.J. Churchyard et al., 'Tuberculosis and …

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Peru's southern region of Arequipa on 14 January 2018, leading to the collapse of an illegal mine just east of the coastal city of Chala. While most of Peru's mining activities are inland, far from the epicentre, just offshore from the town of Lomas, 17 miners went missing at the illegal mine after the shaft ...

A locomotive fell down the main vertical shaft onto the personnel cage, killing 104 friends and colleagues in what remains South Africa's worst mining disaster since democracy. By: Koos Jacobs, …

Key causes of the disaster were the exponential increase in demand for coal following the opening of the Taaibos power station in 1954 on the one hand, and …

A coal dust explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in West ia killed 29 out of 30 on-site miners on 5 April, 2010. The accident was the worst the US mining industry had seen since 1970, when 38 workers were killed at two mines in Kentucky. A final report from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) in …

There have been 41 fatalities in the South African mining industry to date this year, Mine Health and Safety Council mining relations programme manager Brian …

The Minerals Council South Africa has commemorated the country's worst mining disaster, when 435 men died at the Clydesdale Coalbrook North Colliery in January 1960.

South Africa: Platinum: MM: ... (2018) on 222 coal mining disasters in China between 2004 and 2012. They found several impacts of mining disaster news items on society, such as: i. The creation of panic among the public; mine disaster news always carries threats to the social value system. ii.

At least 11 people died at a mine owned by Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. when an elevator transporting workers to the surface failed, the worst accident in the …