The coal mining life cycle
Some 53% of South Africa's coal is produced from surface mining, via open-cast or open-pit mines. This is because the coal is less than 60 metres below the surface. Open-pit mines use draglines, as well as …
How the diamond mining industry is destroying South Africa…
A stretch of once beautiful land is being turned into a lunar landscape by destructive mining practices. Just over two years ago, a group of South African surfers, scientists, journalists and activists launched Protect The West Coast, a collective born to confront the destructive practices of the mining industry.
Impacts of mining on water resources in South Africa: A …
Impacts of mining on water resources in South Africa: A review. George M. Ochieng1*, Ephrahim S. Seanego1 and Onyeka I. Nkwonta2. 1Department of Civil Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Private Bag x680, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. 2Department of Civil Engineering, Mangosuthu University of Technology, P. O. box, …
Anticipating and planning for mine closure in South Africa
Most of the mine closures in South Africa over the past two to three decades have been in the gold mining industry. Employment in the industry dropped from 550 000 in 1985 to 110 000 in 2018 ( Sesele, 2020 ). Mine closure has had severe implications for gold mining towns like Merafong City, our case study city.
Strip mining rehabilitation by translocation in arid coastal
This study investigates the use of top-soiling, irrigation and translocating indigenous plants to facilitate the cost-effective return of a mined landscape to its former land-use (small stock farming) in an arid winter rainfall Succulent Karoo shrub land biome on the West Coast of South Africa. Effects of topsoil stockpiling and subsoil mineral concentration on soil …
Risk management of underground coal pillar extraction in South Africa
G. H. Lind School of Mining Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Correspondence [email protected]. Pages 218-233 ... Pillar extraction practices in South Africa have consumed a significant proportion of safety and fatality statistics in relation to its relative output (less than 5% of total South ...
The state of mine closure in South Africa
The Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy VOLUME 119 JULY 2019 639 . The state of mine closure in South. Africa – what the numbers say. I. W atson and M. Olalde ...
Strip Mining
Coal Mining, Design and Methods of. Andrew P. Schissler, in Encyclopedia of Energy, 2004 2.3 Strip Mining. Strip mining is employed in coal reserves where the overburden is removed in rectangular blocks in plan view called pits or strips. The pits are parallel and adjacent to each other. Strip mining is fundamentally different from contour or area …
Anticipating and planning for mine closure in South Africa
Volume 125, January 2021, 102669. Anticipating and planning for mine closure in South Africa. Lochner Marais a., Anri de Lange b. Show more. Add to Mendeley. …
Harmful mining activities, environmental impacts and effects …
Some of these damages in sub-Saharan Africa include abandoned pits and shafts in artisanal mining areas in West Africa, dumps from previous mining activities in South Africa, pollution of ground ...
Mining in South Africa | Environmental Defender …
For the past seven years, EDLC has been providing legal, scientific, and financial assistance to communities and their lawyers in South Africa fighting unwanted proposed mining projects and harms from existing …
(PDF) Mining and the African Environment
Abstract and Figures. Africa is on the verge of a mining boom. We review the environmental threats from African mining development, including habitat alteration, infrastructure expansion, human ...
How a Proposed Strip Mine Brought Conflict to South Africa…
But Sikhosiphi Rhadebe's real love was the magnificent coastal lands of South Africa's Eastern Cape, where he chaired a community organization campaigning to prevent an Australian mining company from strip-mining their sand dunes for titanium, one of the world's most commercially valuable metals. One evening last March, a …
The impact of gold mining on the Witwatersrand on the …
Gold Fields of South Africa Limited was amalgamated with other smaller companies into the Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa Limited in 1892. Robinson sold his shares in Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company, worth £250,000, to the Wernher–Beit Company, which was an affiliate of the De Beers group and the …
Impacts of mining on water resources in South Africa: A …
Accepted 7 October, 2010. Acid min e drainage is recognized as one of the more serious environmental problems in the mining. industry. Acid min e drainage is a major p roblem on co al and gold ...
How the diamond mining industry is destroying South …
Utterly devastated from 100 years of diamond mining with no rehabilitation. If we allow the same mining companies to do what they've done to the Northern Cape …
(PDF) Evaluating Impacts of Coal Mining in South African …
Post-mining rehabilitation, land use and pollution at collieries in South Africa. Presented at the Colloquium: Sustainable Development in the Life of Coal Mining.13 July 2005, Boksburg. Show more
Mining on Indigenous Lands in South Africa
South Africa is one of the world's leading producers of platinum, gold, coal, iron ore, diamonds, and many other minerals. Despite being so abundant in rare and valuable natural resources, South African …
Mining Weekly
No future for conventional mining methods in South Africa – Amplats. 23rd September 2016 Ilan Solomons. IMPROVING SAFETY Mechanisation was intended to remove mineworkers from dangerous work ...
From Nickel to Cobalt, Chinese Mining Interests in Africa …
Chinese companies face hurdles mining metals in Africa with global implications. ... JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — It is a metal found in products used by people worldwide, unthinkingly every day
Mining Law in South Africa | Laws regulating Mining Law
Dale, South African Mineral and Petroleum Law, par 92.2.1. Anglo Operations Ltd v Sandhurst Estates (Pty) Ltd 2007 (2) SA 363 (SCA) at par 16. Section 3 of the MPRDA. Franklin and Kaplan, The Mining and Mineral Laws of South Africa, 79. For example, a right to prospect under the Minerals Act provided that: If the owner of land …
Mine closure, social disruption, and crime in South Africa
Many of South Africa's gold mining areas have experienced decline and closure since the boom period of 1950– 1990, mainly because of resource depletion, increased mining costs and the health and safety risks of deep mining (Crankshaw, 2002). Jobs in gold mining dropped from about 560,000– 100,000 between 1987 and 2020.
Mining Activity in South Africa
South Africa is a top global producer of a diverse range of minerals, including gold, coal, platinum, palladium, manganese, titanium and uranium. Mining in South Africa had an overall industry value of R 452.67 billion (USD 33.17 billion) in 2017, and accounted for roughly 60% of the country's exports by value for the year.
Mining industry in South Africa
Total assets of the mining industry in South Africa from 2013 to 2023 (in billion South African rand) Basic Statistic EBITDA of mining in South Africa 2023, by …
Surface-strip coal mine land rehabilitation planning in South Africa
The maturity model, was applied to mine rehabilitation guidelines and mine approval consultant rehabilitation reports in South Africa and Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. We found that these documents were vulnerable to adequate, but not yet resilient, i.e. rehabilitation information was gathered, but seldom analysed, with limited ...
of South African open cast coal mine highwalls
In addition, the nature of the open cast coal mining industry is changing from the conven-tional strip mining of coal seams to the extraction of underground coal pillars by …
Surface-strip coal mine land rehabilitation planning in South …
Surface-strip coal mine land rehabilitation planning in South Africa and Australia: Maturity and opportunities for improvement - ScienceDirect. Abstract. …
How a Proposed Strip Mine Brought Conflict to South …
MRC's South African subsidiary Transworld Energy and Minerals (TEM), with a local partner, the Xolobeni Empowerment Company (Xolco), has applied for mining rights. But, far from embracing this project as a potential economic boon, many of the …
Mining Courses in South Africa: Requirements,Schools And …
The cost of mining courses in South Africa varies drastically based on several factors, including the type of program and institution: Type of program: Diploma courses typically range from R20,000 to R50,000 per year. Bachelor's degrees generally cost between R40,000 and R80,000 per year.
Surface-strip coal mine rehabilitation risk assessment: …
iv ABSTRACT Title: Surface-strip coal mine rehabilitation risk assessment: The development of an integrated rehabilitation risk assessment model for use in South Africa and Australia Student name: Vanessa Derryn Weyer, Centre for Environmental Studies, Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, …
8. China's Mining Footprint in Africa
Other Chinese mining companies active in South Africa include: Sinosteel; East Asia Metals Investment (subsidiary of Sinosteel); Jinquan Iron & Steel (Jisco); MinMetals; Zijin Mining and PMG. 8.1. Country Case Studies China's intentions in Africa on the mineral extraction front, could not have been madeclearer after China announced a US$5 ...
The dark face of South Africa's illegal mining | Nation
A man uses a pick axe to dig as others search for what they believe to be diamonds after the discovery of unidentified stones at KwaHlathi village near Ladysmith, South Africa, on June 15, 2021. While mining is the foundational building block of the modern South African economy, it has always had a 'dark side'.