Sep 25, 2011 ... Fin24 is reporting that a huge tailings dam being built in Kuma township could get kyboshed due to opposition from environmental groups,...Contact Us
cent polluted areas, on South Africa's deep-level mines ... Gold and uranium tailings ('slimes') dams and the adjacent polluted soils in the deep-level mining...Contact Us
South African legislation requires that mine residue deposits (MRDs, tailings storage facilities, tailings deposits, or slimes dams) be managed over their entire...Contact Us
The Merriespruit tailings dam disaster occurred on the night of 22 February 1994 when a tailings dam failed and flooded the suburb of Merriespruit, ia, Free State, South Africa.Contact Us
South Deep's Doornpoort tailings storage facility (TSF), commissioned in early 2013, boasts a state-of-the-art ... Conventional gold tailings dams on the Witwatersrand are often associated with acid runoff and ... Both are unique in South Africa.Contact Us
The Metropolitan Area of the Witwatersrand in South Africa has grown up around the. Witwatersrand gold ... abandoned tailings dams in the Witwatersrand area.Contact Us
Figure 1: Merriespruit tailings engulf the town. Introduction. On the 22nd February 1994 the Merriespruit tailings dam failed by overtopping as a consequence of...Contact Us
tailings dams. Attempts to rehabilitate tailings dams started in the sixties by the Chamber of Mines of South. Africa who experimented with various methods of.Contact Us
2 Council for Geoscience, Private Bag X112, Pretoria 0001, South Africa ... gen in the Witwatersrand tailings dams is controlled by secondary porosity (i.e. cracks...Contact Us
When the Bafokeng platinum tailings dam in Rustenburg, SA failed in 1974, liquefied tailings flowed into an adjacent shaft, killing 13 people underground.Contact Us