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SA gold miners go on strike Jump to media player Some 80,000 gold miners in South Africa have gone on a strike to call for higher pay, but their union has significantly scaled down its demands.

Mining Tharisa has right to sell all of Zimbabwe platinum mine Oct 17 2019 16:00. Tharisa, the publicly traded South African platinum and chrome miner run by the Pouroulis family, has the right to take over a platinum mine project in Zimbabwe that could ultimately cost

Aug 13, 2019· South Africa''s largest platinummining union has rejected initial wage offers from two of the world''s biggest producers and accused Sibanye Gold Ltd. of trying to provoke a strike. Sibanye''s ...

Jun 25, 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.

economic sector in South Africa (Chamber of Mines South Africa, 2012). The South African unionised labour market is particularly active when it comes to wage negotiations which often results in strike action, however in recent days we have seen extraordinary increase in illegal strikes in addition to legal strikes (Gold Fields Limited, 2012).

In 2014, platinum industry workers went on a strike that lasted five months. It was the longest strike in the history of South African mining. In 2019, a high court in Johannesburg approved the historic compensation deal for the miners who contracted the fatal silicosis disease when they .

Dec 24, 2018· South Deep is the world''s second largest goldbearing ore mine, but has been unprofitable for a decade, due to deep deposits and rising strike which began on November 2 ended on December 13. The mining house reached a settlement with the workers, with retrenchments going ahead as planned. SibanyeStillwater

Nov 09, 2017· Coal miners wage strike looming . ... Some of the mining companies are also proposing onceoff payments as part of the wage offers. ... South Africa progressed into .

May 19, 2015· The long read: In 2012 a strike at the Marikana mine in South Africa ended in the killing of 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one man emerged who .

Aug 17, 2012· MARIKANA, South Africa — The police fired on machetewielding workers engaged in a wildcat strike at a platinum mine here on Thursday, leaving a .

Palladium prices rose to a record high on Tuesday as the threat of strikes in South Africa''s mining sector exacerbated supply concerns in an already tight market. Meanwhile, gold prices steadied.

The five month long strike affected both the workers and the mining companies. The South African mining industry shed 20,000 jobs in the 12 months leading to June 2013, and that trend was set to continue due to low margins, cost pressures and volatile commodity prices.

Jun 25, 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.

At least 15 mining firms in South Africa have received notices of strikes to be held next week in support of colleagues at SibanyeStillwater who downed tools over wages and job cuts, Minerals ...

Miners'' Strike. South Africa 1946. Synopsis. In August 1946 the African Mine Workers Union (AMWU) in South Africa called a strike of black miners in the country''s Witwatersrand gold producing region. The strike was the first widespread action taken by African workers since 1920.

Aug 31, 1987· More than 250,000 black miners agreed today to end South Africa''s largest and costliest strike after three weeks. The gold and coal miners failed to win any improvement over a prestrike .

Sep 03, 2019· BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — After a prolonged strike and a string of workplace fatalities in South Africa, executives at SibanyeStillwater are leaning heavily on its Montana platinum mines to turn things around at one of the world''s largest precious metals mining companies. The firm posted a 19 ...

Mar 15, 2019· South Africa''s labor court has rejected a request by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to hold an industrywide strike .

Feb 28, 2019· The world''s biggest platinum miners won a reprieve after a South African court reserved judgment on whether to block a weeklong industry strike that was scheduled to start Thursday night.

Location: Wonderkop, near Marikana, Rustenburg municipality, South Africa; 2014 South African platinum strike Wikipedia. The GDP of South Africa contracted in the first quarter of 2014, pulled down by the steepest drop in mining production (25% of which 19% was directly attributable to the strike.

Once South Africa''s most beloved precious metal, gold production has steadily declined over the last few decades. In the last 20 years, gold miners have only seen two years of positive annual growth (in 2002 and 2013). South Africa produced 83% less gold in 2018 than it did in 1980.

Nov 22, 2018· South Africa''s SibanyeStillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) has halted all its gold mining operations in the country after violence broke out overnight during a strike .

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South Africa is home to the world''s biggest platinum group metals deposits and accounts for just over 90 percent of global production. The mining firms were considering the notices and vowed to "everything in their power" to prevent a strike, including legal action, the council said in the statement.
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