Gold Miners in South Africa Join Strikes Hurting BHP, Anglo
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South African gold miners will join workers across three continents striking over pay and disrupting production of raw materials from mines owned by BHP Billiton Ltd., Xstrata Plc and Anglo American Plc.
Gold miners will join striking coal and diamond workers on July 28, South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers said today. The country has about 134,000 gold miners, according to the Chamber of Mines. A strike at BHP’s Escondida copper mine in Chile, the world’s largest, is in its fifth day and stoppages at some of BHP’s Australian steelmaking coal sites are set to resume tomorrow.