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.

Before 1994 in South Africa, African communities were forcibly ... Today, Soweto is home to 1.9 million people who are exposed to acid mine drainage. Our research found that acid mine drainage ...

This reaction poses significant risks to water and agricultural land in many parts of South Africa, including in Mpumalanga. Acid mine drainage (AMD), if left untreated, can have devastating ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Johannesburg) – The South African government’s failure to ensure that abandoned coal mines are rehabilitated puts communities at risk of injury and death and risks polluting resident’s ...

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.

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

Before 1994 in South Africa, African communities were forcibly ... Today, Soweto is home to 1.9 million people who are exposed to acid mine drainage. Our research found that acid mine drainage ...