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Jun 22, 2016· The first round in the highly publicised silicosis class action litigation in South Africa – which could cost the gold mining industry almost – was recently decided in the claimants ...
Mar 20, 2012· From gold dust, a billion dollar claim South African gold mining firms are facing a classaction lawsuit from miners with silicosis. The implications for the gold mining industry and for its ...
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In October 2015, a class action lawsuit dubbed 'the trial of the decade' kicked off in Johannesburg, South Africa. Currently, five legal teams are suing 32 gold mining companies, including Gold Fields and AngloGold Ashanti, for exposing employees to potentially deadly lung conditions.
Tuberculosis is a major concern following silica exposure and a South African standard that does not address this health outcome will be partially satisfactory at best. But, although a case can be made for lowering the respirable quartz OEL, South Africa has isolated capacity to reliably measure quartz even at 0,1 mg/m 3, and many enterprises have yet to achieve this level of control.
South Africa's gold industry, like its economy, is crumbling ... no access to oxygen and no oversight from professional mining companies. In 2014, 21 illegal miners died in the mine on a single ...
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A decision by the South Gauteng High Court regarding the application for class action certification in the case of South African mineworkers who have contracted silicosis – a degenerative lung ...
Aug 16, 2012· South Africa is a world leader in mining. The country is famous for its abundance of mineral resources, accounting for a significant proportion of world production and reserves, and South African mining companies are key players in the global industry. Kumba Iron Ore's massive operations in the Northern Cape include Sishen Mine and Kolomela Mine.
Despite all this work over a century we still have a high prevalence of silicosis in the South African mining industry. In recent times the dust measurement and control research facilities in South Africa have been allowed to run down and we now have very little expertise in this field.
Silicosis is a debilitating disease that can only be contracted through exposure to silica dust, a byproduct of gold mining. The risk of contracting tuberculosis is allegedly increased through inhalation of .
May 16, 2016· In doing so, the court drew on international legal precedent on both class action litigation and common law, from the UK, Australia, Canada, and the USA. The judges also drew on South African legal history, in one instance going back 100 years, roughly the .
South African gold producers agreed a 5 billion rand (400 million) class action settlement on with law firms representing thousands of miners who contracted the fatal lung diseases silicosis and tuberculosis, officials said...The most farreaching class action settlement ever reached in South Africa follows a long legal battle by miners to win compensation for illnesses they say they contracted over decades .