Hazards identified and the need for health risk assessment in the South African mining …
· All in all, there have been more studies of exposures to dust in gold, diamond and coal and asbestos mines than in other mines such as mines for vanadium, iron, uranium, nickel, copper, and so on. There is a need, therefore, to assess the hazards as well as to undertake health risk assessments for mines for which there is little information.