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 — 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.

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.

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue ...

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 ...

“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 ...