Acid mine drainage single most significant threat to SA’s environment

Environmentalists have termed acid mine drainage (AMD) the single most significant threat to South Africa’s environment and this is being driven home by the AMD problems being experienced at the East Rand operations of provisionally liquidated...

Acid mine drainage single most significant threat to South Africa’s environment

Environmentalists have termed acid mine drainage (AMD) as the single most significant threat to South Africa’s environment. In the past, these and other concerns about AMD were in effect ignored by the major stakeholders of the country’s...

Now R5m from government for Pamodzi Gold water problem missing

A sum of R5-million said by government to have been paid over to Pamodzi Gold to solve its rising water problem is missing. Pamodzi Gold East Rand GM Graham Chamberlain told Mining Weekly Online on Wednesday that the money had still not been...

Daily podcast – April 28, 2009

In today's podcast: the Pamodzi Gold East Rand mine has a few hours of pumping left; and Cuba will proceed with plans to build a ferronickel plant with its ally Venezuela.

'We won’t survive the weekend' – Pamodzi Gold East Rand GM

“We’ve got 12 hours of pumping left. We won’t survive the weekend,” a desperate Pamodzi Gold GM East Rand Operations Graham Chamberlain told Mining Weekly Online on Tuesday. Chamberlain said that once pumping ceased, it would be a matter...

Pamodzi Gold’s Grootvlei water problem now desperate – East Rand GM

The mine water problem at Pamodzi Gold’s Grootvlei mine had reached desperate proportions, Pamodzi Gold GM East Rand Operations Graham Chamberlain told Mining Weekly Online at the weekend. Chamberlain, whose team has been fighting a rising mine...