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    Is the coal mining industry ready for women?

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    M.Tech. (Extraction Metallurgy)Abstract: There is a Sesotho proverb that says: “Mmangwana o tshwara thipa ka bohaleng”, which loosely translated means that “the child’s mother handles the knife on the sharp edge”. Women have always been in the forefront of stabilizing communities through cultivating lands, bringing up children and heading households in the absence of husbands working elsewhere. The active participation of females in underground mining has been very limited, due to legislation in most parts of the world. South African women were only allowed to work underground in the mines after the passage of the Mines Health and Safety Act of 1996 (No 29 of 1996). Despite their formal admission to work underground, women were still encountering problems in being integrated into the teams. Sexual discrimination and lack of proper suitable facilities for women are some of the challenges women are faced with. These inequalities and anomalies were addressed by the introduction of the Broad Based Socio Economic Empowerment Charter for the Minerals and Mining Industry, (Mining Charter) in 2002. The Mining Charter required various transformation measures to be implemented in the mining industry. This included the requirement for the mining companies to achieve 10% female representation, as a function of their total workforce, in technical fields, by the year 2009. In essence, where the mines employed women in staff positions historically, they are now..

    Attic Salt, 2021

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    A History of Materials and Technologies Development

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    The purpose of the book is to provide the students with the text that presents an introductory knowledge about the development of materials and technologies and includes the most commonly available information on human development. The idea of the publication has been generated referring to the materials taken from the organic and non-organic evolution of nature. The suggested texts might be found a purposeful tool for the University students proceeding with studying engineering due to the fact that all subjects in this particular field more or less have to cover the history and development of the studied object. It is expected that studying different materials and technologies will help the students with a better understanding of driving forces, positive and negative consequences of technological development, etc

    The Missouri Miner, February 05, 1997

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    Publications (Missouri Cooperative Extension Service, 1988)

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    Publications, University of Missouri Extension, 1989-01

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    The Persistence of Technology

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    Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts become old and worn out, decisions have to be taken: is it necessary, worthwhile or even possible to maintain and repair, reuse or dismantle them - or must they be discarded? These decisions depend on factors such as the availability of second-hand markets, repair infrastructures and dismantling or disposal facilities. In telling the stories of China's power grid, Canadian telephones, German automobiles and India's shipbreaking business, among others, the contributions in this volume highlight the persistence of technologies and show that maintenance and repair are not obsolete in modern industries and consumer societies

    The Persistence of Technology: Histories of Repair, Reuse and Disposal

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    Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts become old and worn out, decisions have to be taken: is it necessary, worthwhile or even possible to maintain and repair, reuse or dismantle them - or must they be discarded? These decisions depend on factors such as the availability of second-hand markets, repair infrastructures and dismantling or disposal facilities. In telling the stories of China's power grid, Canadian telephones, German automobiles and India's shipbreaking business, among others, the contributions in this volume highlight the persistence of technologies and show that maintenance and repair are not obsolete in modern industries and consumer societies
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