This strip of mines and humanity is separated by farms between the mining region known as the Far West Rand which includes Carletonville and Khutsong southwest of Randfontein and the mining centre of Klerksdorp, Orkney and Stilfontein near Potchefstroom further to the west.

In 1996, the government forcibly relocated thousands of people to Tudor Shaft, an abandoned mine tailings dump, from another informal settlement a few kilometers away despite warnings from environmentalists about radioactive hazards [5]. Most of the residents at Tudor were the families of mineworkers evicted when mining compan...

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The current project is an exploration project targeting the possible extension of the historically mined Spaarwater Erosion Channel towards the eastern boundary of the East Rand Basin. The historical Spaarwater Erosion Channel mining produced about 2.6 million tons at a recovered grade of 10.38g/t for 852 000 ounces. The mining on the eastern …

The 400km 2 of bright yellow mine dumps scattered around the province are laden with 600,000 tons of the radioactive heavy metal uranium, inadvertently excavated through gold mining processes over the last century. "Gold and uranium occur in the same geological environment and with gold mining, uranium is often also brought to …

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Johannesburg still faces many hazards from an industry now in terminal decline. Only a small proportion of the city's inhabitants worked in the mines, but the mine dumps that pockmark the city, heavy metals left in the soils, and acid mine drainage threaten the health of those who never set foot underground, as silicosis may have done in the ...

The East and Central Rand of the Witwatersrand has been one of the most important gold mining areas in the world. One of the environmental consequences of this mining activity has been the release ...

Located in West Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa, Krugersdorp is one of gold-mining-cities that have to face the end of the gold-mining power. Beside the question about what this region should develop as the primary engine of growth when the gold-mine stops, There are problems and potentials in the post-mining landscape that should be …

The mine dump off Rosettenville Road south-east of the Johannesburg central business district is interesting because of its 'dual' nature. It is formed from mining waste dug up …

At ERGO, DRDGOLD and its subsidiaries own the rights to some of the properties where the Mineral Resources are located. In other cases, agreements are in place with the landowners to mine the dump …

Many communities on West Rand and East Rand are exposed to health risks. Gold mines remain reluctant to rehabilitate their mine dumps in Gauteng, despite the fact that there are 260 mine dumps on ...

Mine dumps in Benoni - google maps.png. Benoni's Mountain (Google Maps) Johannesburg is famous for being the only major city not built on a body of water …

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In South Africa, government has belatedly begun to implement measures to treat acid mine drainage from gold mines in Krugersdorp west of Johannesburg, and Germiston and Springs on the East Rand.

About: East Rand Mine. East Rand Proprietary Mines (ERPM) is a 125-year-old underground gold mining operation on the Witwatersrand Basin at Boksburg, to the east of Johannesburg. The mine employed 3,850 people. It was the deepest mine in the world until 2008 at 3,585 metres depth, slightly more than the TauTona mine, also in South Africa, …

The 60 or so mine dumps located between the center of Johannesburg and the Far East Rand to which the venture has rights won't all disappear for many decades. Though the Ergo plant has stood idle for five years, it was well built and maintained by Anglo and remains in good condition.

Dewatering of the Far East Rand Mining Basin: A critical evaluation of Government's approach towards solving the associated environmental problems. Pretoria: Department …

Steve Chingwaru has calculated that approximately 420 tonnes of 'invisible gold' – with a value of $24 billion, nogal – is buried in the Witwatersrand's mine dumps.

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In Johannesburg, zama zamas and mining companies alike are in a race to tap golden riches hidden in hundreds of heaps of mine waste, many taller than a 20-storey building.

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Tens of thousands of poor people spend their lives in the shadow of vast mine dumps in Soweto, exposing them to toxic substances like arsenic, lead and uranium.

DRDGOLD's principal subsidiaries are Ergo, our flagship metallurgical plant located some 50km east of Johannesburg in Brakpan; and Far West Gold Recoveries (FWGR) near Carletonville, west of Johannesburg. Ergo and …

East Rand. 26°10′38″S 28°13′19″E / 26.17722°S 28.22194°E The East Rand is a major urban area located in the Gautengprovince of South Africa. It is the urban eastern part of Witwatersrandthat is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. Overview. Map. Directions.

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The KDC is bound by the West Rand Fault to the east separating it from the South Deep Gold Mine, and is bisected by the Bank Fault, a large west dipping fault with a down-throw to the west resulting in the Bank Break phenomenon. The structure east of the Bank Break (KDC-East) is dominated by the West Rand and Panvlakte Horst blocks, which are …

With the gold price as high as it is, the gold in Johannesburg's old mine dumps should be recovered and the valuable land beneath those dumps freed up for redevelopment. The know-how of turning ...

At ERGO, DRDGOLD and its subsidiaries own the rights to some of the properties where the Mineral Resources are located. In other cases, agreements are in place with the landowners to mine the dump material and rehabilitate the land. The necessary agreements are in place for all properties in the LoM plan.

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