The Federation for a Sustainable Environment will sue the Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) if it doesn’t start cleaning up the acid mine drainage (AMD) poisoning the Witwatersrand.
Acid sludge poses a serious risk to Gauteng
Soweto, Johannesburg – Thousands of people face evacuation from greater Johannesburg in the Gauteng province – the economic heartland of South Africa – due to toxic sludge from abandoned gold mines laced with high radiation levels.
Reprocessing tailings
The reprocessing of tailings by Rand Uranium is an important step forward in rehabilitation of an environment that has been badly scarred by earlier mining activities.
Where poison water seeps through the earth
Mariette Liefferink calls it the smell of death. And after all the years she has spent fighting mining pollution, the environmental activist doesn’t even gag at the strong stench of sulphur wafting from the old mining shaft behind her.
Processing of Tailing – discussion doc
Rand Uranium Proposed Reprocessing Of Tailings For Gold And Uranium Extraction in the Randfontein/Westonaria Region