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In South Africa, Harmony Gold secured a license to sell a replica of the One Ring, made from gold taken from the Bloemfontein mine, the area where The Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien was born. Their version of the ring, also inscribed with elvish script, sold in a variety of sizes in various jewellery stores throughout South Africa ...
The Nigeria Uranium Mining Company (NUMCO) was a parastatal organization that controlled the exploration and mining of uranium in Nigeria and was a public/private partnership with Total Compagnie Minière of France, which owned 40% of the company. In 1989, Total pulled out of the partnership, and in 1993 the government reassigned NUMCO's ...
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a mainly mining industry related trade union, an organisation of workers with common goals through organised labour, in South Africa. With a membership of 300,000 as of 2014 [update] , it is the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
The 2003 ARMGold merger with Harmony Gold Mining formed the world’s 5th largest gold producer. [10] The ARMGold merger with Anglovaal Mining (Avmin) came after. [citation needed] In 2009, ARM joined the International Council on Mining and Metals. [12] In 2009, ARM was reported to be planning $1.12 billion investments in mining in Zimbabwe.
The mine is approximately 210 km north-north-west of Port Moresby, and 90 km south-southwest of Lae. [4] It is operated by Morobe Mining Joint Ventures, a 50:50 joint venture between Harmony, a company that operates primarily in South Africa, and Newcrest, an Australian gold and copper mining company. [4]
According to Mining Weekly, the union sees itself as distinct from NUM in that it is "apolitical and noncommunist". [ 2 ] Competition with NUM over bargaining rights, especially at the Impala Platinum and Lonmin mines in the Rustenburg area culminated in the violent Marikana miners' strike and what became known as the Marikana Massacre on 16 ...
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Harmony states that the dead were members of an illegal mining syndicate commonly referred to as Zama-Zamas. [2] [9] The syndicate allegedly raid Harmony's mines regularly, 'armed' with explosives. [2] However explosives are historically a necessary technology of mining; and Harmony has not related the deaths to an attack or explosion.