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West Minin Case

West Mining Company faces risks to human health from its mining operations. These include exposure to respirable dust, which can cause both short-term and long-term respiratory issues. To mitigate these risks, the company should take steps to reduce dust exposure for workers, monitor rock structures for safety, and perform security assessments of mining areas. The background details that mining processes like drilling and milling generate large amounts of dust, making dust exposure a major health risk that the company must address.

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West Minin Case

West Mining Company faces risks to human health from its mining operations. These include exposure to respirable dust, which can cause both short-term and long-term respiratory issues. To mitigate these risks, the company should take steps to reduce dust exposure for workers, monitor rock structures for safety, and perform security assessments of mining areas. The background details that mining processes like drilling and milling generate large amounts of dust, making dust exposure a major health risk that the company must address.

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Name: Eunice C.

Manatad
MBA103

Case: WEST MINING CASE

(e.g. within days). Issues of a continuous


Point Of View: WEST MINING CASE nature - limited impact and consequence
Incident resulting in some site
contamination. Medium term recovery
The Problem of The Case: impact. Compliance issue with large fine,
media attention. Serious harm not
What are the risks of the mining company as immediately recovered. Significant site
human health is concern? How will they be contamination or off-site impact. Long
able to mitigate the risk? term recovery. Issues of a continuous
nature with major long-term impact and
Objective: potentially serious consequences. In the
local sense, the safety valuation of
To be able to provide possible steps in
rockstructures in the open zone and
mitigating the risk factors of West Mining
undergroundwill be performed, and to
Company.
support the deliberateadvancement of
Background of the Study: mines, a grit posse security appraisal venture
is in progress. Mining involves rock drilling,
Mining is the process of extracting valuable related milling operations and dredging.
from then Earth’s surface that can be sold to These processes generate copious amounts
the market. The potential benefits that of dust, which is mainly made up of
mining brings to a community can be crystalline silica. Exposure to respirable dust
undermined if secrecy surrounds the is an important risk factor for many
payment of mining taxes to the government respiratory diseases. Short-term exposure to
or the benefits shared at the local level. respirable dust can cause irritation of the
upper respiratory tract. Long-term
Risk Assessment on Mining cumulative exposure in workers is likely to
develop into silicosis, silico-tuberculosis,
Issues of non-continuous nature with
pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), obstructive
promptly reversible impact or
airways disease and occupational asthma.
consequence (e.g. within shift). Low-
There are many hazards that can result from
level incident, site contained. Issues of a
processing of minerals. According to the
non-continuous nature and minor impact
Mining Intelligence Database, South Africa is
and consequence. Low-level incident,
currently the world’s largest producer of
site contained. Short term reversible
chromite, platinum group metals (PGMs),
manganese (Mn), vanadium and vermiculite,
and is the second largest producer of
ilmenite, palladium, rutile and zirconium.
Comparison

It is shown that the result of the two data has


significant difference. As per result, the data on
expense rises in the fourth quarter compared to
the third quarter.

Conclusion:
Mining has its own good and bad effects, but
mining creates employment also for the
place and to nearby places. But the company
must be a responsible company.
Recommendation:
It is recommended that the company must
create clean water for the workers and
inhabitants. Also water filters for wells as
well. Invest on machines that creates less
pollution. Company must also plant trees for
the site they have dug.

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