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Development of a Risk-based Computer Database to Prioritise the Environmental Rehabilitation of Defunct and Abandoned Collieries

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Participative Management Employee Participation in the Wealth of Mining Companies, an Employee Share Ownership Participation Scheme Focus

André William Dougall

2004

Postgraduate dissertation on share ownership in South African mining, drawing on British and American precedent and a worker attitude survey. For human resources and empowerment planners.

What this report foundEmployee share ownership participation schemes are presented as a route to spreading mining wealth more widely after apartheid.

R1500,00

R1500,00

André William Dougall

What this report found

Employee share ownership participation schemes are presented as a route to spreading mining wealth more widely after apartheid. They differ from profit sharing and pension arrangements in holding only the employer's own equity and in enlarging the company's capacity to borrow. Acceptance of such schemes in the South African mining industry was tested through an attitude survey of workers.

An Environmental Management Accounting Model for the South African Mining Industry

2008

Doctoral work comparing environmental cost practice at four South African mines and building a model from it, for environmental managers and finance staff in mining companies.

What this report foundConventional cost accounting at the mines studied could not report on physical structure or materials flow, so environmental costs such as water, energy and...

R1500,00

R1500,00

What this report found

Conventional cost accounting at the mines studied could not report on physical structure or materials flow, so environmental costs such as water, energy and consumables stayed hidden and chances to cut them were lost. Four case studies across different commodities and mining methods showed the same limitations. An environmental management accounting model is proposed to identify and allocate those costs.

Freddie Hunter

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