Tailings Mine Waste South Africa

The ongoing database development of mine tailings in South Africa is being led by: • Zakhele Nkosi, PhD candidate, lecturer and researcher in Applied Mineralogy and Historical Geology at the University of Pretoria, with a focus on diamond mine tailings for mineral carbonation and CO2 removal.

Tailings dams in South Africa pose serious risks to communities and ecosystems. The Mine Tailings Working Group of South Africa, a partnership of civil society groups including the Bench Marks Foundation, Federation for …

Environmental Risk Assessment, Principal Component Analysis, Tracking the Source of Toxic Heavy Metals of Solid Gold Mine Waste Tailings, South Africa L. V. Tibane a Geological Sciences, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa Correspondence [email protected]

On 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 …

Mine Waste Solutions Tailings is located 77 Km SW from Carletonville, South Africa

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 of gold tailings in South Africa.

Keywords: gold tailings, mine waste management, mine waste reuse Introduction Despite the gold industry's contribution to the national economy, the industry has been ... documented in South Africa, some mines make use back˚ ll for structural stability and alleviating problems such as rock falls and rock bursts in mines (Squelch 1994). One

Sweden, South Africa and Australia are at the forefront of a push to transform piles of mine waste and by-products into rare earths vital for the green energy revolution, hoping to substantially ...

A scoping study on the use of Bushveld PGM tailings for CO 2 storage by Vögeli et al. (2011) showed that these tailings alone have the potential capacity to store ∼14 Mt of CO 2 p.a. The Bushveld area in South Africa produces in the order of 77 Mt p.a. (June 2009–June 2010) of tailings from the beneficiation of PGMs from Merensky, UG2 and Platreef operations …

Mine Waste Solutions is a tailings retreatment operation near Klerksdorp in North West province. It reprocesses low-grade material from tailing storage facilities scattered across the Vaal River and Stilfontein area to reduce the tailings footprint. ... North West, South Africa. X; Facebook; LinkedIn; YouTube; Instagram; Registration no. 1950 ...

Figure 1 Location of Jagersfontein in South Africa(Sapora, 2010) In this report we first explain what tailing dams are. Second, we focus on the methodology that ... and that the dam is strong enough to contain the mining waste. Tailings dams can pose a threat to local wildlife as birds and animals bathe in and drink from the

Mine 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.

The 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 tailings ...

It 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 influence the future direction for your peers.

Our 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, smothering …

BACKGROUND: 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 of mine waste killed at least three people, and injured 40.The failure swept away houses, damaging at least 20.The tailings flowed over 8 km and left a path over 1.5 km wide.Video of the failure …

The GT was collected from a Gold Mine Company in the Mpumalanga region of South Africa. The tailings samples were collected from one tailings dams of a gold mine. The tailings are generated from a metallurgical and cyanidation gold processing plant. ... Re-thinking mining waste through an integrative approach led by circular economy aspirations ...

Gold mining in the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa left behind enormous unrehabilitated mining waste tailings near the City of Johannesburg that are contaminated by trace elements.

Jones & Wagener provides services relating to these aspects with a particular emphasis on monitoring MRDs in the operational phase. This includes interpreting critical parameters on an …

A typical flow sheet for the reprocessing of tailings is shown below in figure 2. Figure 2: Simplified diagram showing the hydraulic re-mining of tailings. It can be noted that the use of hydraulic mining for tailings can be to either reprocess the waste, mine the waste as a product, or for moving of the tailings to a more suitable location.

Abstract. A concerning phenomenon in South Africa's mines is the huge quantities of waste generated by the mines. The problem is historical in that there was existing land and water contamination from previously generated waste, often from now abandoned mines, of which there are many.

While the waste hierarchy promotes the reuse of waste there currently remains limited reuse of mine waste in South Africa. Overburden, waste rock, tailings and slag are stockpiled or disposed leading to environmental liabilities including acid mine drainage and leaching. Globally there are numerous documented uses of mine waste.

The 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 of gold tailings …

STORAGE FACILITIES WITHIN THE WEST RAND AREA IN SOUTH AFRICA by Gladness Mmadibakisha Chadi Student No.: 38780593 submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of ... The disposal of mine waste, chiefly tailings, has of late, assumed an importance that transcends even the massive

Component Analysis, Tracking the Source of Toxic Heavy Metals of Solid Gold Mine Waste Tailings, South Africa, Environmental Forensics, DOI: 10.1080/15275922.2023.2172478

Coming together for the first time, the Life of Mine | Mine Waste and Tailings Conference (LOM | MWT) will bring mining professionals from around the globe to Brisbane from 29—30 July 2025 ...

Gold mining in South Africa resulted in vast volumes of waste material, mainly in the form of tailings material. Poor management of most of the tailings dams resulted in the release of acid mine drainage that in some cases caused soil degradation and water contamination underneath and around these sites.

South Africa. Mining in South Africa is regulated by the Water Act 1998, the Minerals Act 1991 and the Mine Health and Safety Act 1996. ... (DEA) to control mine waste dumps, stockpiles and tailings storage. Chile. In Chile the Servicio de Minas del Estado is responsible for regulating tailings impoundment projects as well as the safety of the ...

Phase 1 of the Kareerand tailings storage facility expansion project has been commissioned. ... Mine Waste Solutions (MWS) extension project. ... (print copy for those in South Africa and e ...

Under current environmental legislation in South Africa, tailings are viewed as potentially hazardous waste that needs to be disposed of in compliance with the appropriate minimum requirements ...