12 07 2017 Platinum demand faces massive impact from electric car growth IPMI LONDON Reuters Take up of electric cars may prove more devastating for platinum
Click to chatImpact The strike cost the platinum industry around 1.2 million ounces of production worth about 24 billion rand 2.25 billion Amplats estimated it had lost 11 billion rand 1.04 billion in revenue The company spent about 2.4 billion rand on overhead on mines closed during the strike.
Click to chatStrikes can mean disaster for both parties The recent strikes in South Africa illustrate the damage that can be caused the workers have lost pay due to absence from work and the employers have lost business South Africa s economy has become an extremely competitive one and losing business to a competitor is a serious blow.
Click to chatImpact Of Motor Strike On Platinum Mining Industry randpic The impact of the 2014 platinum mining strike in South Dec 01 2015 The first round impact of the shock is to reduce productive capital in the metal ores mining industry in 2014 by 10 and also to reduce the economy wide labour
Click to chat02 09 2021 Implats shareholders benefitted from the strong gains in platinum and palladium prices with its profit up 130 over the past year The company is paying out a final dividend of R12 per share bringing the total dividend to R22 But Implats struck a cautious tone on the metals price outlook Rallying metal prices and higher sales saw Impala
Click to chatI I t was with these dangers in mind that miners have demanded higher wages throughout the industry s 150 year history As a result mining has been marred by violence with the Marikana Massacre of 2012 being the most recent occurrence where police killed 34 workers and injured 78.
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Click to chatENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT Mining has often a negative impact on the environment by the pollution it causes Pollution The impact of mining on the environment affects different aspects Radioactive substances emanating from uranium mines have such devastating effects on the environment The massive use of water by mining companies and industrial
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Click to chat23 01 2014 This is the biggest industrial unrest in South Africa s platinum sector since the 2012 Marikana massacre when police shot dead 34 striking miners Unlike 2012 the current strike is legal.
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Click to chatDeforestation due to mining leads to the disintegration of biomes and contributes to the effects of erosion In situ leach ISL mining ISL mining has environmental and safety advantages over conventional mining in that the ore body is dissolved and then pumped out leaving minimal surface disturbance and no tailings or waste rock World Nuclear Association 2012 .
Click to chatensure to industry throughout the world adequate and continuing supplies of these metals Platinum Metals Rev 1963 7 41 136 143 136 The earlier stages of the mining and recovery of the platinum metals from the Rustenburg Platinum Mines have been reviewed in some detail in this journal I
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Click to chat21 05 2020 Platinum South Africa has more than 80 of the globe s platinum reserves This has helped to make its platinum mining industry one of the
Click to chat09 10 2016 The impact on western countries was not only to make them wish to economise on oil use but also to seek increases in supply and reductions in demand for other fuels The overtime ban and subsequent strike in the coal industry reinforced this trend in Britain but efforts to reduce overall fuel use continued after the miners dispute was concluded.
Click to chat25 04 2017 Mining adversely affects the environment by inducing loss of biodiversity soil erosion and contamination of surface water groundwater and soil Mining can also trigger the formation of sinkholes The leakage of chemicals from mining sites can also have detrimental effects on the health of the population living at or around the mining site.
Click to chatmining industry has the challenge of securing future demand for the metal as electric vehicles replace the need for catalytic converters Mining companies in particular have a strong interest in the building of industries that use new platinum applications Consequently the mining industry through deploying key
Click to chat03 09 2013 About 80 000 gold miners in South Africa walked out on strike on Tuesday night raising fears of renewed violence in the crisis hit industry and underlining the government s dwindling authority.
Click to chatAs a result mining companies are focussed on improving efficiency and reducing cost more than ever 5 Environmental footprint Traditionally a carbon intensive industry miners are now looking at ways to reduce their environmental impact more than ever One of the major ways it can do so is by evaluating their energy usage.
Click to chatMining is an important industry in South Africa but it is also an industry with a damaging impact Mining often pollutes the water air and soil and can disrupt farming activities and community life Communities throughout South Africa struggle to defend their rights to their land to their environment and to their resources when
Click to chatMining industry of South Africa Wikipedia Mining industry of South Africa Premier Diamond Mine Cullinan The Vredefort Dome impact which lies within the basin and the nearby Bushveld Igneous Complex are both about a billion years younger than the interpreted age of the gold platinum industry workers went on a strike that lasted five months.
Click to chatPlatinum group elements PGEs face a very different problem than that of other strategic metals Despite the fact that the Bushveld Complex mine in South Africa has the resources to supply world demands for platinum for the next century miners strikes complicate the economic stability of PGEs.
Click to chatThere are some differences between platinum and palladium supply that we should take note of here First 90 of platinum is produced by South Africa and the broader region mainly Zimbabwe while a large mining supply of palladium comes from Russia 29 and South Africa 27 Second while platinum comes from platinum mines in South Africa
Click to chat05 03 2014 Earlier this month the Chamber of Mines estimated that the country s platinum strikes were costing the economy about 36 million a day Terence Goodlace CEO of Impala Platinum was quoted this week as saying the strike in the platinum sector will have absolutely dire consequences for the industry.
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Click to chat25 06 2014 After five months South Africa s platinum miners strike has ended with a deal that will see the lowest paid workers receiving increases of R1 000 £55 a month.
Click to chat14 08 2014 While the five month wage strike in South Africa s platinum sector may have finally been resolved the repercussions on the industry the country and particularly the affected communities are long term Sadly it s the workers themselves their communities that rely on the mine workers and the parallel informal and formal commercial businesses that have been the hardest hit Warren Beech
Click to chat11 10 2012 South African President Jacob Zuma said mining strikes are having a significant impact on an economy already struggling to cope with Europe s debt crisis.
Click to chatstrike by the mining workers became a climax of the more problems the workers experienced in the mining sector The following were some of the miners grievances The brutal role of employers and the mining industry In the recent years since 1994 the massive platinum boom in
Click to chatThe current turbulence in the mining industry in South Africa has its roots in several different factors First the fall in global demand for platinum and other minerals due to recession second the consequences of the Marikana disaster in destabilising labour relations and third the structural character of our mining industry A great deal has been written about the first two factors so
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