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use of bacteria in south african gold mining

  • South Africa - Diamonds, gold, and imperialist ...

    South Africa - South Africa - Diamonds, gold, and imperialist intervention (1870–1902): South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the South African War ended. Midway between these dates, in 1886, the world's largest goldfields were discovered on the Witwatersrand. As the predominantly agrarian societies of European ...

  • Optimization of the compressed air-usage in South African ...

    The ensembles as well as the single classifiers are used to classify, thus monitoring and predicting the underground water dam levels on a single-pump station deep gold in South Africa.

  • South Africa's Illegal Miners Risk Everything for Gold

    1080p | 73.5MB. South Africa's Illegal Miners Risk Everything for Gold. Illegal mining in South Africa is among the most lucrative on the continent, pushing miners …

  • Molecular characterisation of clinical and environmental ...

    Mycobacterium kansasii (M. kansasii) is a major cause of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease in the South African gold-mining workforce, but the source of infection and molecular epidemiology are unknown.This study investigated the presence of M. kansasii in gold and coal mine and associated hostel water supplies and compared the genetic diversity of clinical and …

  • PRODUCTION OF HIGH-PURITY URANIUM AT A SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD ...

    A novel extreme alkaliphile was isolated from a mine water containment dam at 3.2 km bellow land surface in an ultra-deep gold mine near Carletonville, South Africa. The cells of this bacterium were straight to slightly curved rods, motile by flagella and formed endospores, Growth was observed over the temperature range 20-50 degreesC (optimum ...

  • Newly Discovered Microscopic Worm Thrives in Gold Mines a ...

    Deep in South Africa's gold mines water can be found in rock fractures, hosting bacteria that feed off the stone itself and form biofilms on the hard surfaces.

  • Profile of bacterial communities in South African mine ...

    It should be mentioned that the use of culture-independent methodologies to assess the microbial diversity of any gold mine water in South Africa has never been reported previously. The difference in microbial communities between these mine waters (Fig. 3, Table S2 ) can probably be attributed to the effects of the particular physicochemical ...

  • Mining – National Institute for Occupational Health

    Mining can be arduous work in challenging and potentially hazardous circumstances; the South Africa's mining environment is unique and exceptionally challenging. Certain mines operate up to five kilometres underground where the rock temperatures can reach 60°C.

  • Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins ...

    The 1886 discovery of gold on a farm in the Witwatersrand region of southern Africa drove the growth of Johannesburg, and gold mining has aided the South African economy for more than a century since. But gold, and diamonds, also fueled the Second Boer War, one of the most destructive armed conflicts in Africa…

  • The Role of Mining in the South African Economy

    bution to Value Added in the South African Econ-omy In this section we examine the contribution of the mining sector to South African output in terms ofthe real value addedcontributed by the three ag-gregate SouthAfrican mining sectors: Coal, Gold & Uranium and Diamond & Other Mining.3 We examine the net output contributed by the mining

  • Potential of Chemolitotrophic Bacteria From Gold Mining ...

    Materials Some countries such as Australia, Brazil, for extraction used 50 μL tenderizer 35%, 50 μL Ghana, Peru and South Africa have used the Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate 20% alcohol absolu- process of oxidation of sulfide minerals in the te, ethanol 70% and TE buffer for storage at -20 gold mining (Gonzales et al., 2004).

  • (PDF) Impacts of mining on water resources in South Africa ...

    South Africa. Accepted 7 October, 2010. Acid min e drainage is recognized as one of the more serious environmental problems in the mining. industry. Acid min e drainage is a major p roblem on co ...

  • Nanomaterials | Free Full-Text | Inhibition of Bacteria ...

    Unlike conventional physical and chemical methods, the biogenic synthesis of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) is considered a green and non-toxic approach to produce biocompatible GNPs that can be utilized in various biomedical applications. This can be achieved by using plant-derived phytochemicals to reduce gold salt into GNPs. Several green synthesized GNPs have been shown to have antibacterial ...

  • South Africa - Gold mining | Britannica

    South Africa - South Africa - Gold mining: Prospectors established in 1886 the existence of a belt of gold-bearing reefs 40 miles (60 km) wide centred on present-day Johannesburg. The rapid growth of the gold-mining industry intensified processes started by the diamond boom: immigration, urbanization, capital investment, and labour migrancy. By 1899 the gold industry attracted investment worth ...

  • Studies on the bioleaching of refractory concentrates

    The Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2000 389 Introduction Bioleaching is now an established technology for the pre-treatment of refractory gold ores and concentrates and the leaching of whole-ore copper heaps. In many cases, it offers economic, environmental and technical

  • Human exposure to uranium in South African gold mining ...

    Human exposure to uranium in South African gold mining areas using barber-based hair sampling. A new study by scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in collaboration with researchers in Germany and South Africa, examined human exposure to uranium in gold mining areas in South Africa.

  • TUBERCULOSIS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINING …

    It is estimated that about 80% of the population of South Africa is infected with TB bacteria. The vast majority have latent rather than active TB disease. TB remains ... TUBERCULOSIS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINING INDUSTRY Fact sheet May 2020 QUICK FACTS 90% ALL UNDERGROUND WORKERS ... particularly gold mining. This is due to several factors ...

  • Uses of gold - Mining for schools

    Small amounts of gold isotopes are used in the diagnosis and treatment of certain illnesses. In lagophthalmos, a condition characterised by a person's inability to close their eyes, a small amount of gold is planted in the upper eyelid to help the person close their eyes. The gold isotope, gold-198, is used in the treatment of cancer.

  • South Africa's rival unions unite in dispute over gold ...

    A united labor force will present a different dynamic for South African mining companies. NUM and AMCU, the biggest unions in the gold sector, have previously refused to …

  • Physicochemical properties, heavy metals, and metal ...

    Muibat Omotola Fashola, Veronica Mpode Ngole-Jeme, and Olubukola Oluranti Babalola "Physicochemical properties, heavy metals, and metal-tolerant bacteria profiles of abandoned gold mine tailings in Krugersdorp, South Africa," Canadian Journal of …

  • South Africa's DRDGOLD ups gold production and EBITDA in ...

    - DRDGOLD (JSE, NYSE: DRD), a South African gold producer that recovers gold from the retreatment of surface tailings, announced today that in Q3 2021, its gold production increased by 7% from the previous quarter to 1,449kg primarily due to an 8% increase in yield.

  • A history of mining in South Africa (ZA)

    However, according to South African History Online, these were minor reefs and credit for the discovery of the main reef on Langlaagte Farm went to Australian George Harrison in July 1886. Johannesburg's large gold deposits that ran for miles underground ensured the little mining town mushroomed into a …

  • Terrifying Facts About the World's Deepest Gold Mine

    The deepest gold mine in the world is Mponeng, a 2.5-mile hole in the ground in South Africa. A whole underground city — lightless and lawless — …

  • List of Top Mining Companies in South Africa 2020

    6. Hluma Minerals, Mining South Africa, Minerals. Location: 242 Jean Ave, Centurion Central, Centurion, 0163. List of Gold Mines in South Africa. Among the companies that specialise in mining gold, the following is a list of mines in South Africa: 1. Savuka Gold Mine. Location: South, Randfontein, 1764. 2. Mponeng Gold Mine

  • (PDF) The South African Soil Environment | Shoana Leigh ...

    South African trees are used in many sectors ranging from construction, herbal medicine and fuel; at the rate they are being consumed there will not be trees in community areas within the next 20 years (Rosenberg, 2007). 1.2.3.6 Poor irrigation water logs the soil and causes favourable conditions for viruses, bacteria and pathogens as well as ...

  • Related assemblages of sulphate-reducing bacteria ...

    We characterized the diversity of sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) associated with South African gold mine boreholes and deep aquifer systems in Washington State, USA. Sterile cartridges filled with crushed country rock were installed on two hydrologically isolated and chemically distinct sites at depths of 3.2 and 2.7 km below the land surface ...

  • Recent advances in BIOX technology - The Southern African ...

    African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2009. Recent advances in BIOX® technology J. VAN NIEKERK Gold Fields Ltd, South Africa The past number of years has seen a sharp rise in the gold price. This has led to renewed activity in the gold sector and especially in refractory orebodies that are not economically feasible at lower gold prices.

  • South African gold mines a 'TB factory', activist claims ...

    The gold-mining sector came under heavy criticism from clinicians, ex-miners, advocacy groups and the Minister of Health for the tuberculosis crisis it faces at the recent South African TB Conference, held in Durban from 1 to 4 June, 2010. "If TB/HIV is a snake in Southern Africa, we know that its head is in South Africa in the mines. We are exporting TB and HIV throughout the region ...

  • TUBERCULOSIS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINING INDUSTRY

    It is estimated that about 80% of the population of South Africa is infected with TB bacteria. The vast majority have latent rather than active TB disease. TB remains ... TUBERCULOSIS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINING INDUSTRY Fact sheet May 2020 QUICK FACTS 90% ALL UNDERGROUND WORKERS ... particularly gold mining. This is due to several factors ...

  • US NSF - X-treme Microbes

    Location. Mponeng Mine, South Africa. Temperature: 140 F. Pressure: 4500 psi. Rock 2.5 billion years old. Scale: Ground level, 0.5 miles, 1.0 miles, 1.5 miles, 2.0 miles, 2.5 miles, 3.0 miles. This tunnel leads to the section of the Mponeng gold mine in South Africa where the "radiation-eating" microbes were found in water flowing from a ...

  • 5. The mining industry, migrant labour and hostels - The O ...

    It is a voluntary association of private sector mining finance houses, mining companies and mines. It has over 80 members drawn from South Africa's gold, coal, diamond, platinum, antinomy, asbestos, manganese, lead and copper mining sections. The members account for approximately 85% of the mineral output of South Africa.

  • Rainbow to use special tech in South African ... - mining

    Africa-focused Rainbow Rare Earths (LON: RBW) has inked an an agreement with US-based K-Technologies to use its separation method in the miner's Phalaborwa rare earths project in South Africa.

  • The impact of gold mining on the Witwatersrand on the ...

    Mining of gold in the Welkom and ia areas of the Free State Province in South Africa has produced numerous gold mine tailings, which contain a variety of contaminants. The extent of contamination of groundwater in the area was studied by measuring several water quality indicators at eight sampling sites, and within three zones.