
Counting the Cost: Gold Mining and Occupational Disease in ...
22/01/2009 · The Legal Adviser to the Chamber of Mines, G. E. Barry, remarked at the 1930 Silicosis Conference in Johannesburg that the compensation scheme imposed such a heavy cost on employers that some mines had been forced to close. 16 H. W. Sampson, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, told the delegates that compensation cost the gold mines almost one ...