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The water treatment plant at the Grootvlei mine near Springs will flood with acid mine water in five days, closing down operations, if action is not taken, the Water Affairs Department said on Tuesday.
"The plant is only pumping 40 megalitres of acid mine water a day, but it needs to pump 108 megalitres a day to stop it from flooding," the department's acting director of institutional establishment, Marius Keet said during a visit to the mine, owned by Aurora Empowerment Systems. |