Economic Impacts of Gold Production in South Africa
South Africa Department of Minerals and Energy (2007). South Africa is estimated, by the US Geological Survey, to have 6000 metric tons of gold reserves. A full 95% of South Africa's gold mines are underground operations, reaching depths of over 2.5 miles. Coupled with declining grades, increased depth of mining, and a slide in the
Social impact assessment in the mining sector: Review and comparison …
South Africa: Gold, coal: National: 43: Corno and de Walque (2012) O: ORI: Statistical analysis: ... Concerning negative impacts on mining community health and safety, the indicators "risk of mortality for communicable and non-communicable diseases" and "risk of death due to air and water pollution" are in SHDB, but are not sector ...
Artisanal mining and its drivers in the South African context
Worldwide, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) includes an estimated forty million participants, and ASM activities indirectly support more than 150 million people across eighty countries in the global South (Intergovernmental Forum, 2017: 2).In the South African context, the number of people employed in the sector is estimated to be between 10,000 and …
The Gold Trade of Ancient & Medieval West Africa
West Africa was one of the world's greatest producers of gold in the Middle Ages. Trade in the metal went back to antiquity but when the camel caravans of the Sahara linked North Africa to the savannah interior, the trade really took off. A succession of great African empires rose off the back of the gold trade as salt, ivory, and slaves were just some of the …
South African gold loses its shine
South Africa's gold mining sector has for some time struggled with ever-growing production costs at its deep mine operations and union strikes. ... due to the impact of the five-month strike. ... according to Trading Economics. One of the largest negative contributors was gold, down 24.4%. Over the same period, PGMs saw an increase of 6.8%.
Social and Environmental Impacts of Mining | SpringerLink
Consequently, less raw material input contributes in reducing the environmental negative impacts of mining. There is also an aspect of material efficiency which basically refers to the manufacturing of products with fewer materials thus leading to less consumption of raw materials. ... Illegal gold fuelling gang battles in South Africa, by ...
An Eco-Marxist Critique of Capitalism in Africa | SpringerLink
The study quoted multiple negative environmental impacts of resource exploitation and the recurrence of resource curse conflicts that manifested in Niger Delta oil sites of Nigeria, gold mine areas in Ghana and South Africa as well as the copper sites in Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia as the manifestation of the people's resistance ...
The Local Socioeconomic Effects of Gold Mining
of such impacts. A recent literature on the local and subnational effects of natural resources ... Ghana is the second-largest gold producer in Africa after South Africa, with gold production averaging 77 tons per year (Gajigo, Mutambatsere, and Mdiaya 2012). In 2011, Ghana's ... Similar to gold mining in other African countries (see Gajigo ...
Gold mining, climate change, and Africa's transition
While global gold mine production has grown by 26 percent since 2010, in Africa it has risen by nearly 60 percent, and in at least 10 African countries it has more than doubled.
How does the mining sector impact the South African economy?
Mining has had a larger impact on shaping the South African economy than any other sector. It transformed a predominantly rural economy into an industrial one. ... Moreover, it is worth noting that the gold mining industry is quite beneficial for the country's economy. According to 2018 data, South Africa exported gold, which was estimated at ...
Mining in Africa 2024: Strategies to address …
Political changes can significantly impact mining companies' share prices and commodity prices in countries with significant production shares, such as West Africa-focused gold mining companies and the Republic of Guinea, which …
Mine closure, social disruption, and crime in South Africa
Many of South Africa's gold mining areas have experienced decline and closure since the boom period of 1950–1990, mainly because of resource depletion, increased mining costs and the …
Gold mining and the abuse of environmental and human …
(Cambridge, MA, October 12, 2016)—South Africa has failed to meet its human rights obligations to address the environmental and health effects of gold mining in and …
A History of Gold Mining in South Africa, Ghana and Tanzania
The African continent is richly endowed with significant mineral, oil and gas resources, including large reserves of gold. As noted in the previous chapter, the continent is home to a large portion of the world's mineral wealth, including 42 per cent of the world's known gold reserves (Bush, 2008, p. 361).The continent's largest producer of gold, South Africa, is …
Coal mining and environmental sustainability in South Africa…
Moreover, the negative impact of coal mining is undermining South Africa's efforts to strengthen food security and accomplish SDG objective 2 of eradicating hunger. Bench Marks Foundation ( 2014 ) reported that the availability of land and access to clean water for agriculture and livestock cultivation in South Africa has been severely ...
A history of mining in South Africa
Mining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15-year-old Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africa's first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867. ... Within a year of gold findings, the area had some 7 000 …
Mining Sector Report 2023
This report aims to provide detailed insights into the South African Mining sector, covering companies from sub-industries such as coal, general mining, gold mining, platinum, and precious metals. The JSE lists thirty-nine companies in the ... The deterioration of Transnet Freight Rail has had a particularly negative impact on the mining sector ...
Impacts of Coal Mining in Witbank, …
Coal mining plays a critical role in the economy of South Africa though posing detrimental environmental effects on aquatic life and the terrestrial environments with one of the major impacts ...
South Africa
South Africa - Diamonds, Gold, Imperialism: South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the South African War ended. Midway …
Economic Sustainability of Small Mining Towns: A …
Small mining towns are often single-industry towns that turn to ghost towns or face negative socio-economic impacts upon mine closure. This study qualitatively explores the roles that mining companies and other key …
The Economic and Environmental Effects of Coal Mining: South Africa
The negative impacts of coal mining in South Africa: externalities In this part, externalities of coal mining in South Africa are applied to analyze the non-economic values.
Regulation and remediation of the impacts of mine wastes …
Dams for the Gold Mining Industry, South Africa' (MSc Thesis, North-West Universi ty, 2016), iii. 8 David Laurence, 'Optimisation of the Mine Closure Process' (2006) 14 Journal of Cleaner ...
(PDF) A critical review of the impact of South Africa's mine …
Aim: We reviewed South Africa's legal frameworks relating to mine closure, the winding-up of gold mining companies and the impact of sudden closure on the environment and communities.
Evidence of the impacts of metal mining and the effectiveness of mining
Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to societies, but it may also cause conflict, not least …
The Haunting Legacy of South Africa's Gold Mines …
Thousands of abandoned gold mines are scattered across South Africa, polluting the water with toxics and filling the air with noxious dust. For the millions of people who live around these derelict sites, the health impacts can …
Diamond exploration and mining in southern …
In more than 150 years of mining history, southern Africa has consistently been the dominant producer of the world's diamond supply (McKechnie, 2019), producing some of the world's largest and ...
The Social and Environmental Consequences of …
2017. Nuisance for the people living in areas covered by the direct or indirect impact of the mining industry is an important social problem. The development of the mining industry depends on high environmental requirements, in …
Environmental Impacts of Gold Mining—With Special Reference to South Africa
Gold mining has serious negative environmental impacts, especially due to pollution emanating from tailings storage facilities (TSFs, tailings dams, slimes dams). The …
THE IMPACT OF MINING ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN …
Writing in A History of South Africa: Social and Economic in 1941, CW de Kiewiet pointed out that gold mining in South Africa was very expensive because of the small amount of gold in vast tonnages of rock: "The concept of an industry that was colossally wealthy only on condition that it jealously watched each penny of its expenditure is ...
Mine closure, social disruption, and crime in South Africa
Many of South Africa's gold mining areas have experienced decline and closure since the boom period of 1950–1990, mainly because of resource depletion, increased mining costs and the health and safety risks of deep mining (Crankshaw, 2002). Jobs in gold mining dropped from about 560,000–100,000 between 1987 and 2020.