In the past few years, there has been renewed interest in finding ways to make tailings storage facilities (TSFs) safer, following very significant failures at facilities like Mount Polley in Canada and Fundão in Brazil, writes Adriaan Meintjes. […]
The South African government has commenced with a process of handing out mining permits to informal and illegal miners. Nicolaas Steenkamp asks what the implications are. […]
Water security makes tailings dam technology a key hurdle for South Africa’s mining growth, writes Adriaan Meintjes. […]
Tailings dams usually only hit the headlines when they fail, resulting in the loss of life and catastrophic environmental damage. As a result, the proper design, management, construction, and monitoring thereof are vital, writes Nicolaas C Steenkamp. […]
Several opencast mining operations are looking at using surface miners rather than conventional mining methods to unearth coal deposits. Edited by Leon Louw […]
Petra Diamonds and BME have accomplished technological innovation for underground blasting with the implementation of the new Axxis centralised blasting system (CBS), writes Dineo Phoshoko. […]
According to the Minerals Council South Africa, South Africa’s mining industry loses R7-billion annually to illegal miners, writes Dineo Phoshoko. […]
Ownership and transformation are hot topics in the mining industry at the moment, writes Dineo Phoshoko. […]
It is almost impossible to imagine a world without copper, writes Dineo Phoshoko. […]
Since the Q(h)ubeka Trust was established in March 2016, it has awarded about R134-million in compensation to qualifying ex-mineworkers. […]
