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Tailings material is processed at a rate of millions of tons per year [ 9] and massive tailings dam facilities originating from coal and ore mining litter the South African landscape In 1996 the mining industry was responsible for the production of 377 million tones of tailings accounting for 81% of the solid waste stream in South Africa [ 7 ]
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Sep 23 2022A dam holding liquid mine waste from a tailings reprocessing operation near the historic Jagersfontein diamond mine in Free State province burst on Sept 11 releasing a flood of mine slurry that swept away houses and cars killed one person and injured scores
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South Africa 2024 South African National Standard No 10286 Code of practice of Mine Residue Facilities Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act Government Printer Shainberg I Singer JJ 1988 Drop impact energy soil exchangeable sodium percentage ESP interaction in seal formation Soil Science Society of America Journal vol 52 pp 1449 1452
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Nov 2 2022On Sept 11 a dam at a diamond mine in Jagersfontein South Africa collapsed releasing a deluge of mining waste known as tailings which swept through the outskirts of the town
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Sep 19 2022By Ayanda Msimang Claire Tucker Monday September 19 2024 The possibility of tailings dam failure highlighted by the recent Jagersfontein tragedy highlights the need for particular care when assessing the risks of a transaction in the mining and minerals processing sectors In South Africa a different regulatory regime applies to tailings
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Sep 23 2022A dam holding liquid mine waste from a tailings reprocessing operation near the historic Jagersfontein diamond mine in Free State province burst on Sept 11 releasing a flood of
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This includes interpreting critical parameters on an on going basis stability assessments and audits of the tailings disposal management system for a particular mine Our expertise extends to the applicable legislation of South Africa which includes the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act the National Water Act the National Environmental Management Act and the Constitution of
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Case Study Manila tailings dam Marula Platinum Mine is located approximately 32 km northwest of the town of Burgersfort in Limpopo Province South Africa The pre deposition works for the mine s existing tailings dam was constructed in 2024 as an unlined facility in line with the legal requirements at that time
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Laila is currently leading the implementation of the Global Industry Standard for Tailings Management GISTM across all Rio Tinto s closed and legacy assets Laila is passionate about encouraging women into the tailings and mine closure sector and is proactive in attracting and retaining women in resources Welcome to Country Deborah Sandy
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Sep 12 2022BACKGROUND 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 km wide
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We have an opportunity for a senior level Tailings Mine Waste and Geotechnical Engineer to join an experienced engineering team based in Cardiff UK This opportunity will involve working on a diverse range engineering studies related to international mining projects with multi disciplinary teams both in the UK and overseas
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Weir Minerals provide innovative and sustainable tailings and pipeline solutions for our customers around the world We are focused on the continuous development of technology to utilise and manufacture tailings as products as well as the design of pipeline transport systems to create sustainable mine waste solutions
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Sep 12 2022The Jagersfontein Mine disaster in South Africa On sunday 11 September 2024 the world once again woke up to a tailings dam disaster this time at Jagersfontein Mine in South Africa s Freestate
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5 days agoIncorporated in the Republic of South Africa Registration number 1950/038232/06 improved performance from Mine Waste Solutions Mine Waste Solutions Phoenix Central Plant Savuka
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Some authors [8 9 10 11] however consider the most worrying aspect of present day mining in South Africa to be the ethics of tailings handling and other mine waste disposal practices and the impact these have on the health of surrounding communities and the environment as a whole by way of pollution incidents safety failings and
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6 days agoThe mine has been forced to curtail production following a leak from its tailings dam an earth fill embankment dam used to store byproducts after separating the ore from mining waste
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In South Africa the dose constraint applicable to the average member of a critical group from a single source within the exposed population is mSv per annum This means that the AEDE average values from the mine tailings were considered unsafe to the population but those from the control area were below the regulatory limit
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Tailings dams are used to store water and waste that come as by products from the mining process It is estimated there are at least 3 500 tailings dams around the world But as there are around 30 000 industrial mines the number of tailings dams is likely to be much higher Tailings dams can be huge in size as big as lakes and reach 300
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October 2 1985 —EPA proposes in the Federal Register 50 FR 40292 to reinterpret the scope of the mining waste exclusion as it applies to mineral and ore processing wastes leaving only large volume processing wastes excluded Other mineral and ore processing wastes that are hazardous would be subject to full RCRA Subtitle C hazardous
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An ilmenite flow initially considered at GCO Senegal as a residue was able to be recovered by creating a new commercial product called Ilmenite 56 61 000 tons of this product have been recovered since 2024 Non hazardous mine tailings
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Stilfontein tailings reprocessing project Mine Waste Solutions formerly Hartebeestfontein / Buffelsfontein tailings currently only producing gold Buffelsfontein and Hartebeestfontein tailings dam Resources include Reserves > Download Technical Report on the Mine Waste Solutions Tailings Recovery Project Jan 1 2024 SEDAR PDF
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Tailings Heap Leach and Waste Focus srk South Africa and is the only open cast platinum mine within the Anglo American Group Pilot paste project This project involved establishing commissioning and operating a pilot scale thickener deposition flumes and evaporation paddocks The aim of the test work was to characterise the tailings material
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6 days agoUniversity of Cape Town Cape Town University of Cape Town UCT PhD candidate Emma Horn won second place in the Falling Walls Lab world finals with her green bio tile innovation Tamlyn Sasha
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practitioners in the ˚ eld of mine waste man agement ˜ e ˚ ndings of the research are pre sented below by ˚ rst providing a review and analysis of the opportunities for re purposing gold tailings material and mine dumps in South Africa and subsequently assessing the key factors in˛ uencing the development and
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May 15 202110 180 000 000 8 850 000 000 Tailings are what is left over after mills separate the metal from the mined rock The processed material tailings comes from the tail end of a mining mill and comprise fine particles mixed with water forming a slurry Mining companies will store this waste in dams or ponds
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Mine wastes usually include waste rock overburden slag and tailings on land surfaces while mine wastelands are comprised of stripped areas open pits loose soil piles waste rock and overburden surfaces subsided lands tailings dams and other lands degraded by mining facilities Wong 2024 Li 2024 Sikaundi 2024 Venkateswarlu et al 2024
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Tailings dams are commonly used by mining firms to store waste remnants of ore but they have come under close scrutiny since the collapse of one in Brazil last year that killed more than 250 people In China the incident at Yichun Luming s tailings pond on March 28 caused no reported casualties but discharged million cubic metres of waste before the leak was plugged on March 31
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several decades of mining activities in the gauteng province of south africa has had and continues to have a negative impact on ecosystems through the pollution of soils and water with high levels of potentially toxic metals such as as pb and al as is the case with the old gold mine tailings in blesbokspruit ekurhuleni south africa [ 6 7 8 …
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Sep 19 2022the recent and tragic jagersfontein tailings dam failure has brought into focus the complicated regulatory environment that exists for mine residue or tailings facilities in south africa with the minister of minerals and energy seeking to distance his department from the tragedy [1] by claiming that a 2024 judgement which co incidentally …
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