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ASBESTOS RELIEF TRUST MARKS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH A LOOK AT WHERE WE STAND IN CONQUERING THE SCOURGE OF ASBESTOS IN SA. The Asbestos Relief Trust (ART), which was founded to provide adequate compensation for qualifying persons suffering with asbestos … Continued

The Kgalagadi Relief Trust (KRT), which was formed in March 2006, held its annual general meeting in Johannesburg yesterday. Chairman of the KRT, Phiroshaw Camay said it was critically important to remember the dangers which asbestos still presented despite the … Continued

This is a new generation of Minetec’s Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) for vehicle and personnel position reporting and tracking.   Trax+Tags II incorporates the WASP (Wireless Ad-hoc System for Positioning System), developed by CSIRO, to address challenging tracking and navigation applications not … Continued

Contractors failed to follow standard safety practices. HOUSTON, Aug. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — An explosion and fire during a construction project last November on a Gulf of Mexico oil production platform operated by Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, LLC occurred after contractors … Continued

QUEENSLAND’s struggling mine operators have been put on notice: don’t make safety a casualty of cutbacks. Queensland’s Commissioner for Mine Safety and Health, Stewart Bell, made the call yesterday, voicing concern that mine companies, in a bid to maintain viability amid falling commodity prices, could … Continued

By Reynolds Soil Technologies (RST) 19 August 2013 Dust is an ever present issue on site, but when this is coal dust the problem is multiplied. Coal dust particles are often small enough to easily be inhaled, and can lead … Continued

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 22 August 2013 – In the pursuit of justice for tens of thousands of mineworkers in South Africa and throughout the neighboring regions, Abrahams Kiewitz Attorneys, the Legal Resources Centre and Richard Spoor Attorneys Inc. today submitted an application for … Continued

Date:           11 – 13 November 2013 Venue:       AngloGoldAshanti, West Wits Satelite Training Centre Contact:    fcloete@anglogoldashanti.com  

SOUTH AFRICAN MINING SECTOR TO MEET AS IT RE-ASSERTS ITSELF AS A GLOBAL PLAYER The Chamber of Mines South Africa, in partnership with the Department of Mineral Resources and the National Union of Mineworkers, will host the second Mining Lekgotla … Continued

12 July, 2013 Malavika   An investigation in China has shown a coal mine company hid the death toll from a gas explosion in northeast China’s Jilin Province in March. Xinhuanet reported the explosion happened on March 29 at Tonghua … Continued