Boksburg Lake Turns Red from Mine PollutionEnvironmental experts have raised concerns over the long-standing mismanagement of mines that fail to comply with maintenance regulations, reports SABC News.

over 100 years before South Africa’s National Environmental Management Act compelled mining companies to manage the waste they produced. The goal of acid mine drainage treatment is to produce ...

Department of Water and Sanitation senior manager Marius Keet discusses the challenge of acid mine drainage in South Africa and the ways in which government and industry are dealing with the problem.

The government plans to install reverse osmosis packaged units to treat toxic acid mine drainage (AMD) to optimise the use of water and to help alleviate water stress in Gauteng. The department of ...

A local innovation is helping to dredge sediment more efficiently from water cleaning reactors, contributing to the treatment of acid mine drainage ... in Southern Africa,” says Venter.

Why Hundreds of Miners Are Still Trapped and Feared Starving in an Abandoned South Africa Mine CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed to be sick and increasingly weak inside an abandoned mine shaft Thursday.

“Ruthless toward the Zama Zamas and community.” As the mining industry shrank in South Africa and mine owners began to abandon unprofitable sites, Zama Zamas started digging through what ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87 ...

over a mile deep underground in a disused mine shaft in the South African town of Stilfontein. In South Africa, workers at illegal gold mines like these are known as "zama-zamas," meaning "one who ...