Background. The clinical relevance of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), detected by liquid more than solid culture in sputum specimens from a South African mining workforce, is uncertain. We aimed to describe the current spectrum and relevance of NTM in this population. Methods. An observational study including individuals with sputum NTM isolates, recruited at workforce tuberculosis ...

African Gumboot Dance: A Heritage of Ingenuity By ... deep in the gold mines of South Africa. Owners and supervisors paid little heed to the needs of the workers they depended on to harvest gold ...

Toro Gold has established an experienced board of directors with a diverse and complementary skill set that will support the Company in achieving its stated strategy of developing a multi-mine gold producer. ... engineer from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1991 and subsequently spent some time working in the South African ...

INCREASING THE DIVERSITY OF THE MINING INDUSTRY WORKFORCE – STRATEGIES FOR EMPLOYERS. ... South Africa is acknowledged from its recent history to be a special case, but even so the ... strategies should assist employers to increase diversity in their workforce. CULTURAL ISSUES The mining industry is generally accepted to be a conservative ...

View Pieter van der Westhuizen's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. ... South Africa Industry Mining & Metals. Current: Diamond Minerals; Previous: Consultant, ... A proven track record working with large International companies with multi-cultural and ethnically diverse workforce's in difficult and challenging ...

New uses for gold; Geographical diversity; Gold supply. Mine production. How much gold; Interactive gold mining map; Lifecycle of a gold mine ... Positive impacts of mining - case studies ... AngloGold Ashanti's Vaal River mine won the 'Project of the Year' award from the South African Association for Energy Efficiency for its Vaal River ...

Cultural and ethnic diversity. ... In Australia, building a linguistically and culturally diverse workforce is one of the cornerstones of our diversity and inclusion strategy. Our Australian offices are focusing on building our Asian talent pipeline, given their proximity to Asia. ... In South Africa, our broad-based black economic empowerment ...

On Tuesday, Gold Fields - one of South Africa's most venerable miners - announced plans to slash 1,100 jobs, or nearly a third of the full-time workforce, at its loss-making South Deep unit. At their peak in the late 1980s, South Africa's mines employed 760,000 people, contributed 21 per cent to GDP, according to government figures.

Martin Preece. Gold Fields - Executive Vice President : South Africa. Location Johannesburg Area, South Africa Industry Mining & Metals

Topics span from The Readiness of the South African Coal Mining Industry to Support Women in Mining to a paper on Reality Versus Perception: Dissecting the Challenges in Achieving Gender Diversity ...

Diversity – come as you are Type your message below and join the Anglo American conversation on Twitter ... Back to our stories. As South Africa's largest mining employer, we know all too well about "reshaping" in a country where transformation is a sensitive issue and diversity in the workplace plays a critical role in an ever-changing ...

Pan African Resources closes Evander Gold Mine, leaving its former workforce out on a limb ... Art and Culture; Art and design; ... a relic of the South African mining industry's colonial ...

Lonmin is set to delist from the London market after accepting a £285m takeover offer from South African gold miner Sibanye-Stillwater last month. ... has a workforce of more than 30,000. The ...

small scale mining (ASM). In Africa, the ASM workforce comprises no less than 40-50% ... African Women in Artisanal and Small-scale Mining . O ne key component of the mining sector – artisanal and small-scale mining – has a huge female work-force, estimated at between 40-50% in ... women in artisanal and small-scale mining in the project ...

Growth Without Equity Roils South Africa . ... The event triggered strikes in other platinum and gold mines, transport sector and disruptions to its agricultural sector. ... Finally, the mining workforce, unlike any other in South Africa, is heavily dependent on migrant labor drawn from rural areas. The workers are male-dominated, culturally ...

South African Gold Mine: Managing culturally diverse work force Add Remove Read the attached case study and write a summary/abstract on the following questions.

Let's Tour A South African Gold Mine... Right around this time last week I was over 1,000 feet underground at the Modder East gold mine, near Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mining in South Africa. South Africa's mining sector is legendary, providing the bedrock upon which Africa's most industrialised economy was built since the country's first diamond and gold rushes in the late 1800s. South Africa is a top global producer of a diverse range of minerals, including gold, coal, platinum, palladium, manganese, titanium and uranium.

South Africa - Resources and power: South Africa is rich in a variety of minerals. In addition to diamonds and gold, the country also contains reserves of iron ore, platinum, manganese, chromium, copper, uranium, silver, beryllium, and titanium.

3 WOMEN IN MINING : A guide to integrating women into the workforce Foreword ... set by the South African Department of Mining, to ... 7 WOMEN IN MINING : A guide to integrating women into the workforce Departments The key departments necessary for the successful

South Africa's improvement in gender diversity – regarded by commentators to be greater than most mining industries worldwide – can be attributed to women empowerment initia- tives and ...

Gender diversity and the pay gap in SA . ... rate of women in the South African economy was approximately 45% in 2014. ... should spend more resources on the development of a diverse workforce ...

South African mining company Gold Fields owns and operates a number of assets in Australia: its vision is to be the global leader in sustainable gold mining and we look at how its Granny Smith operation is leading the way to achieving that ... Bywater has a reputation as a champion of equal opportunity for women and true diversity in mining ...

By George J. Coakley Mining and downstream minerals processing remained ... than 53,000 kg of gold to South Africa's gold mine capacity by 2003. Ferrous Metals.—Saldanha Steel (Pty.) Ltd., which was ... The high incidence of HIV/AIDS in South Africa also poses a threat to the workforce and to overall economic development, as well as ...

Rationale: HIV-associated tuberculosis remains a major health problem among the gold-mining workforce in South Africa. We postulate that high levels of recent transmission, indicated by strain clustering, are fueling the tuberculosis epidemic among gold miners.Objectives: To combine molecular and epidemiologic data to describe Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity, estimate levels of ...

A recurring theme over the years at the Mining Indaba has been the uncertainty in the South African mining industry. ... years ago. After investing $2.5 billion in the operation, the giant gold mine may have to stop productivity. ... activities to be performed from locations that can support a more diverse and inclusive workforce," reads ...

culturally diverse, older, and in greater need of child and elder care. Leaders in both the public ... South). It is a simple fact that each of us possesses unique qualities along each of these dimensions. Experience and recent research indicate that ... Introduction Best Practices in Achieving Workforce Diversity There were never in the world ...

The Modder East mine is one of the newest gold mines in South Africa. … pack (one size ― bulky … to respect for safety ― within the entire workforce. South African Gold Mine: Managing a culturally diverse work force

Background Tuberculosis is epidemic among workers in South African gold mines. We evaluated an intervention to interrupt tuberculosis transmission by means of mass screening that was linked to ...

Gold Street: where South Africa's mining history goes to die. ... The state wants automakers to double the size of their combined workforce to about 225,000 to help to tackle the jobless rate, but ...

Workforce TB figures are from the Chamber of Mines, South Africa . ... Time trend in tuberculosis (TB) case notification rates among the study workforce of South African gold miners, compared with the rates for the general population of the United States. ... culture with Sabouraud media, and, for diluted blood or CSF specimens, latex ...

Archaeal diversity in waters from deep South African gold mines. ... A culture-independent molecular analysis of archaeal communities in waters collected from deep South African gold mines was performed by performing a PCR-mediated terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of rRNA genes (rDNA) in conjunction with a ...

Learn about our three gold mines in Tanzania ... Home > About us > Market context > Mining in Africa What we do; Our culture; At a glance; Our strategy; Market context; Our leadership; ... over 96% of our workforce in Tanzania is now made up of Tanzanian's and on average those employees earn US$20,000 per annum which is more than 10 times the ...

yet experience a pressing need to optimise diversity in their workforce. This sample can be classified ... Diversity Management in South African Companies. 2 ... (O'Mara, 1994, p.115). Cox (1994, p 6) defines cultural diversity as "the representation, in one social system, of people with distinctly different group affiliations of cultural ...

 · Many visitors to South Africa's gold mines were invited to watch a weekly ritual, the performance of traditional dances by African mineworkers. Touted by the mineowners as a beneficial form of leisure for miners, no doubt these dances helped workers let off steam, while also reinforcing the powerful ethnic affiliation and identification designed to keep…

 · South Africa's Mponeng gold mine is a 2.5-mile-deep network of chutes and tunnels that employs about 4,000 miners. Of course, that number doesn't include the …

Women in mining – inspirational voices lead change from within. ... if you consider that it was technically illegal for a woman to go underground in a mine in South Africa as little as ten years ago and women were not permitted underground until 1986 in Western Australia, then it is clear that progress is being made. ... inspirational voices ...

Case 8 Managing a Culturally Diverse Work Force in a Southern African Gold Mine Jeffrey Ovian Environment Introduction Few 20th century industrial enterprises can compare with a south-

Data published by the Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate Wednesday shows that the South African mining industry in 1999 had its best year ever in regard to fatalities and injuries.