A gold mine employee at US giant Newmont s Boddington mine in WA has been diagnosed with silicosis sparking calls to expand preventative health checks for miners Silicosis strikes at Australia
KCM Nkana mine in Kitwe which hasbeen in operation since the early 1930sconsists of a refinery cobalt plant and three acid plants which release flue gas into the atmosphere
·Review Article Preliminary review of mine air pollution in Zambia Phenny Mwaangaa b Mathews Silondwac George Kasalib d Paul M Bandab a Copperbelt University Africa Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Mining Kitwe Zambia b Department of Environmental Engineering Copperbelt University Kitwe Zambia c Department of Occupational Safety and
·Lawyer Jonathan Walsh represents Tony Kotlin and is acting for several other underground mining workers with silicosis ABC News Peter Gunders Stronger national regulations needed experts say
·The risk of silicosis in metal miners is higher than that in pottery workers when exposed to the same level of silica dust The silica dust exposed years should be under 10 years for metal miners and 40 years for pottery workers at mg/m 3 to keep lifetime risk within % Current exposure limits should take into account differences in various industrial circumstances
An epidemic of silicosis is on going in Rajasthan with thousands of silicosis patients diagnosed in recent past This questionnaire based study was conducted in two districts of Rajasthan namely Jodhpur and Nagaur to study the awareness of silicosis among stone mine workers where silicosis is rampant
Mopani also operates three concentrators two at the Nkana mine in Kitwe and one at the Mufulira mine Ahead of the fresh funding secured this year for Mopani the new USD$220 million Nkana Synclinorium concentrator in Kitwe was commissioned in March 2022 along with further new equipment and is expected to improve both recoveries and
·Silicosis is a disease that has been known since the 1800s Industries with workers at risk classically included mining sandblasting construction and metal casting [1 9 10] Other less common industries which have silica exposure are tunneling excavating quarrying abrasives ceramics glass making stone grinding paint fillers gemstone working and dental
Many challenges exist in the prevention and control of this ancient and preventable disease such as unregulated informal sector diagnostic difficulties absence of a surveillance mechanism inadequate staff and a lack of awareness [28 41 44] Apart from routine dust control measures several initiatives may be undertaken to control silicosis including raising awareness building
·INTRODUCTION The 1930 International Labour Office ILO Conference on silicosis in Johannesburg was a landmark event which not only led to the first international consensus definition of silicosis but also touched on broader aspects surrounding this disease such as diagnosis patient care compensation and methods to control exposure
·An estimated 44 million artisanal and small scale miners ASM largely based in developing economies face significant occupational risks for respiratory diseases which have not been reviewed We therefore aimed to review studies that describe silicosis and tuberculosis prevalence and respirable crystalline silica RCS exposures among ASM and use background
·The stated intention to eliminate silicosis from the South African goldmining industry as well as current programmes to find and compensate ex miners with silicosis require an understanding of variation in silicosis prevalence across the industry We aimed to identify the predictors of radiological silicosis in a large sample of working miners across gold mines in
·Silicosis continues to be a serious health issue in many countries and its elimination by 2030 a target set by WHO and the International Labour Organization in 1995 is virtually impossible
·Although silicosis has been an established disease with a recognized cause for more than 100 years many workers continue to be exposed to silica and new outbreaks of disease continue to occur This article describes some of the well established and new exposures including denim sandblasting artificial stone cutting and some forms of coal worker s
·study involving all persons engaged in stone mining to determine prevalence of silicosis in the area There is also need to train local doctors in diagnosis of silicosis as large numbers of cases are misdiagnosed as cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis The mine owners and workers also need to be educated and made
This overview provides an update on silicosis epidemiology with review of exposures and emerging trends in acute and accelerated silicosis in the twenty first century The silicosis epidemics in mining denim sandblasting and engineering stone industries are highlighted Clinical presentations of silicosis and silica related conditions such as autoimmune kidney
Awareness o silicosis among mine workers Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine ¦ Volume 22 ¦ Issue 2 ¦ May August 2018 99 in Rajasthan An epidemic of silicosis is on going
·Average monthly income of mine workers in the present study was Rs 8929/ This was high compared to the study done by Ahmad A [14] among sandstone miners in which the average monthly income was Rs
·As silicosis is associated with gold rather than platinum mining in which the risk of silica exposure is considered to be much lower albeit that silica is present Nelson and Murray 2013; Biffi
·Acute silicosis You can get this type by having intense exposure to particles made up of a large percentage of silica over a period of time that is as short as several months Mining and quarrying Construction building and demolition Stone work including stone countertop manufacturing Pottery ceramics and glassmaking Sandblasting
At the Nkana mine for instance management informants estimated that around 200 women attended the meeting alongside male mineworkers and they appear to have voted on the list of demands as well a more favourable negotiating procedure and silicosis Footnote 54 The latter was passionately upheld by all white mineworkers in the region
Nkana Mine comprises four underground mines and several open pits although none of the open pits are currently operational and surface metallurgical units as concentrators and refinery operations Mopani Copper Mines has between 2014 and 2021 sunk and equipped brand new Syclinorium and Mindola Deeps Shafts to replace the old infrastructure
English This dissertation is a detailed historical account of the corporate structure labour relations and profitability of the Rhokana Corporation and its Nkana mine Thematically and chronologically organised it starts with the discovery of viable ores on the Copperbelt in the late 1920s which attracted foreign capital from South Africa Britain and the United States of
When exposed to mg/m 3 of respirable silica dust for 45 years the cumulative risks in metal mines % % % for tungsten mines iron and copper mines and tin mines respectively were still higher than those in pottery factories % The joint effect of silica and smoking on silicosis was more than multiplicative
