Urgent decisions necessary to avoid environmental consequences

With the relentless downpour of rain experienced across Gauteng during the past couple of months, mines in the area have been battling to keep the toxic tide of acid mine drainage (AMD) beneath surface.

WUC advancing towards implementation 
of planned acid mine drainage project

Western Utilities Corporation (WUC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of AIM-listed Watermark Global, has made great strides towards the implementation of its proposed acid mine drainage (AMD) solution in the Eastern Western and Central basins.

Concern raised as two Western Basin mines stop pumping, treating mine void water

The Federation for a Sustainable Environment (FSE) informs Mining Weekly that two of the three mining companies responsible for cleaning and treating the toxic mine water in the Western Basin have once again stopped pumping and treating the mine...

Mintails prepared to help tackle AMD on the West Rand

Gold producer Mintails SA is committed to participating in any sustainable solution aimed at tackling acid mine drainage (AMD), one of the biggest environmental challenges facing the mining industry on the West Rand, says Mintails CEO Dick van der...

Massive acid mine drainage project stimulus for local beneficiation

Help is at hand to assist South Africa’s rising mine water dilemma. It has come in the form of the Western Utilities Corporation (WUC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Aim-listed Watermark Global, which aims to turn the acid mine drainage scourge...

Toxic water level rises 
as government, miners 
bicker about the cost of cleaning up

Disputes between the government and mining companies over the cost of cleaning up the toxic water caused by mining, have led to the rapid rise in the water level following the partial closure of a water treatment plant outside Randfontein.

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...

Sins of the fathers

Acid mine drainage (AMD) caused by a century's worth of gold mining on the Western Basin, has posed a very serious threat to the biodiversity of the region, which relies on the Basin's tainted water supply for life.

Companies join forces to address mining-related water pollution

To arrest the problem of acid mine drainage (AMD) in the Witwatersrand Basin area, a state-of-the-art water -treatment plant capable of processing 75-million litres of AMD to industrial ‘grey-water’ quality, has been established at the...