Soweto residents spoke of dust particles from mine dumps - also called tailings - blowing into their homes and over water sources during the rainy and windy seasons, as well as open sewage pipes ...
DetailsIn November 2024, the Tailings and Mine Waste conference will be hosted November 10-13 by the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at Colorado State University. The conference program will include exemplary technical presentations and keynotes by practitioners and well-known experts from across the world.
DetailsTailings pile. (Reference image by mlhradio, ... Story: The link between mine waste and apartheid in South Africa
DetailsOn September 11, 2022, a dam collapsed at a diamond mine in Jagersfontein, South Africa, and released a watery mixture of mining waste known as tailings.The sludge poured across the landscape, destroying homes, inundating rivers …
DetailsMedia Contact: On the morning of September 11, a tailings dam collapsed at the closed Jagersfontein diamond mine in Free State, South Africa. Local news reports the flood …
DetailsMine tailings, especially historical ones, can contain economically feasible resources, and given the right condition, such tailings could be reutilised through a waste valorisation concept. A prominent example are the Witwatersrand gold mine tailings in South Africa, which have been reused in small-scale projects.
DetailsThis piece was co-authored by Hassen Lorgat and Jan Morrill, Tailings Campaign Manager at Earthworks.. On September 11, 2021, a fatal tailings dam failure in the South African town of Jagersfontein released over 6 million cubic meters of toxic mine waste on the downstream communities of Charlesville and Itumeleng. Two years later, families from these …
DetailsJoin Diemme Filtration at the 2023 Tailings and Mine Waste Conference, taking please on November 5-8, 2023. Diemme Filtration will present a paper entitled "High capacity pressure filters for tailings dewatering: slurry characteristics and their impact on process optimization". Our Sales team will also be glad to meet you at booth #33.
DetailsThe tailings retreatment sector in South Africa has been receiving a lot of attention due to the economic, environmental, financial, and political imperatives impacting new and existing …
Detailsagriculture. Waste generated from mining includes overburden waste, tailings and other processed waste. Management of mining waste is likely to be of some significance in many developing countries where recycling/extraction and processing of minerals have important economic values. The process of mineral extraction from mining to metal
Details62370, Marshalltown, 2107, South Africa. b. Jacobus JP van Wyk (Prof.) Director Institute for Reclamation Ecology, Pot-chefstroom University, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa. surf ace as sand dumps prior to 1921, and since then as slimes deposits. The combined area already exceeded 80 km2 in 1973. The advent of mines caused the
DetailsThe recent and tragic Jagersfontein tailings dam failure has brought into focus the complicated regulatory environment that exists for mine residue or 'tailings' facilities in South Africa, with the Minister of Minerals and Energy seeking to distance his department from the tragedy by claiming that a 2007 judgement, which co-incidentally specifically concerned the …
DetailsHarmony manages 84 TSFs in South Africa and one in Papua New Guinea as part of the mining process, which includes the deposition of waste material in TSFs. Our approach Robust and meticulous engineering and dam design, continuous risk management, and layered assurance and oversight provide integrity, stability, and environmental and legal ...
DetailsSRK Consulting (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd was commissioned by EKO Environmental (EKO) to classify and assess the tailings at Jagersfontein Mine in terms of the Waste Classification and Management Regulations. The Waste Classification and Management Regulations utilised to classify and assess the tailings included the following:
DetailsThe large volumes of waste generated during gold beneficiation are a major pollution concern in South Africa. To remove these potential pollution risks in perpetuity, non-conventional approaches to mine waste management are required which avoid land disposal of "unwanted" material. This dissertation explores the opportunities, drivers and barriers for the re-purposing …
DetailsMining companies are often criticised for dumping waste without taking the necessary precautions. The result is a significant amount of air, soil and water pollution. ... known as tailings ...
DetailsBy reprocessing waste rock and tailings to extract gold left behind during the initial mining process, we effectively reduce our environmental footprint while rehabilitating our tailings …
DetailsThe company currently produces uranium as a byproduct of gold mining at its Great Noligwa mine in South Africa and expects to boost output when its Moab Khotsong mine opens. ... Processing of first legacy tailings dam in Stilfontein area completed in Mine Waste Solutions tailings project: On Jan. 23, 2012, Mine Waste Solutions announced that ...
DetailsThe mining industry can contribute to achieving all the SDGs (CCSI et al., 2016) at the global, national, regional and local scales.As mines generally operate for many decades, they can create long-term benefits for, or impacts on, local communities, environments and the wider economy (ICMM, 2018).Global demand for metals has been steadily growing in the past 20 …
DetailsIn South Africa, uranium is a by-product of gold mining. > See also: Database Index: Uranium Mining in Sub-Saharan Africa ... > Download Technical Report on the Mine Waste Solutions Tailings Recovery Project March 31, 2008: First Uranium (5.7M PDF) · SEDAR (5.7M PDF)
DetailsWaste-rock dumps near Orkney are treated at the Great Noligwa and Mispah plants. Milling of waste-rock dumps at the Doornkop plant, in Gauteng, began in FY18. Waste-rock dumps and tailings facilities acquired with Mponeng are treated at the Mponeng, Kusasalethu and Savuka plants.
DetailsGold mining waste was estimated to account for 221 million tonnes or 47 % of all mineral waste produced in South Africa, making it the largest, single source of waste and …
DetailsOur study provides a sociohistorical account of decisions made about the Jagersfontein mine in the Free State province of South Africa (Map 1) and the catastrophic failure of its tailings dam that occurred in the early morning of September 11, 2022.The failure resulted in the sudden and uncontrolled release of more than 6 million m 3 of liquid sludge, …
DetailsEnhanced weathering of rocks at mine sites is not the silver bullet that can meet climate change targets set out in the Paris Agreement, but can form an integral part of the greater global movement to tackling climate change. …
DetailsIt is the facilitators hope that similar symposia will become a staple aspect of the Tailings and Mine Waste Conference in the future with a rotating and diverse group of speakers every year. As such this first symposium represent a great opportunity to …
DetailsValorisation of mine waste -Part I: Characteristics of, and sampling methodology for, consolidated mineralised tailings by using Witwatersrand gold mines (South Africa) as an example October 2021 ...
DetailsProject Description Mine Waste Solutions was acquired by Harmony Gold in October 2020 and is a gold reclamation operation that treats 2.2-million tonnes a month from historical tailings facilities ...
DetailsEngineered Tailings Solutions Providing South Africa with Trusted Consulting ... • Monitoring and Auditing of Waste Management Operations • Rehabilitation and Closure Design ... Engineered Tailings Solutions provides leading civil …
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