AngloGold, Gold Fields Threatened as Lawyer Seeks Plaintiffs
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AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. and Gold Fields Ltd. are among South African producers threatened with costly court battles as rights groups enlist thousands of former miners with work-related lung disease for a class-action suit.
“We are doing the legal research and at the same time identifying ex-gold miners who are potential claimants,” Richard Spoor, a human-rights lawyer who has won settlements worth millions of dollars from mining companies, said in a phone interview Aug. 16 from Maseru, Lesotho. “Our target is about 30,000 people before the end of the year.”