Mogale Tailings Retreatment Project: Kickoff set …

Load-and-haul mining will be used to extract resources from the smaller North Sands and South Sands tailings dumps. The re-mined tailings will be processed in a CIL plant of similar design to the Elikhulu operation, with an …

Feasibility of tailings retreatment to unlock value and …

This study explores the possibility of reclaiming the tailings dump of the Louis Moore Mine in the Giyani Greenstone Belt, investigates potential hazards to communities in the vicinity, and identifies mitigation strategies.

Where have all the mine dumps gone? | The …

The early methods of gold extraction would send the tailings (discard) to sand dumps, but as time went by improved methods of extraction would create a slime that could be disposed of by pumping to a slimes dam. …

The catastrophic failure of the Jagersfontein tailings dam: An

Following decades of boom-and-bust diamond trading, in 2011, the property reopened to re-mine the waste dumps, accumulating liquid waste in the tailings dam, a practice that ended in disaster at 6 a.m. on September 11, 2022.

Development and application of a methodological …

Mining and processing of magnesite at Nyala Mine (Zwigodini Village) resulted to two unrehabilitated tailings dumps while copper mining created a huge tailing dump outside Musina Town. Figure 1. The location of …

Scramble for Mine Tailings: Corporate greed vs …

The race for critical minerals has turned South Africa's abandoned mine dumps into battlegrounds where corporate interests clash with community survival. These tailings, referred to as mine ...

South Africa's untapped mining opportunity

It will take many years and lots of hard work to restore confidence in South Africa's mining industry and get it to its full potential. In the meantime, there are opportunities for some relatively 'low hanging fruit' – including in reprocessing surface tailings dumps. The mining …

Feasibility of tailings retreatment to unlock value …

A two-stage mineral leaching and metal recovery protocol was developed to extract copper from tailings generated as waste materials in two mines currently operating in Spain and Serbia.

Converting Tailings Dumps into Mineral Resources …

A number of developments in mineral processing technology have combined to make the retreatment of numerous tailings dumps a profitable Extraction of valuable metals from tailings dumps (or residues or low grade …

Hazards identified and the need for health risk …

In addition, acid mine drainage from mining operations and mine tailings dams and dumps contains a variety of toxic metals, some of which are found in high concentrations in soils surrounding mining areas in South Africa. …