Silicosis

Anglo American Sets Aside $101m For Silicosis Claims

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British miner Anglo American has set aside $101 million (87 million euros) to cover potential damages for former South African staff who contracted the fatal lung disease silicosis at work, it said Thursday. The news came after Johannesburg’s High Court ruled in May to allow former and current mine workers, employed by South Africa’s main … Read more

Jaw-dropping Photos That Expose the Human Cost of South Africa’s Mines

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Talented Photographer Ilan Godfrey, in a photoseries called “For Legacy of the Mine”,explores the human cost South Africa’s monolithic mining industry, tracing the threads of exploitation and oppression that run through the country’s lucrative mineral trade. Pivotal in the nation’s emergence as a global industrial leader, the diamond, coal, and gold mines carry with them … Read more