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A review on the impact of mining operation: Monitoring

Mine dumps are responsible for the risk of contaminated soil, air and surface waters used for drinking, irrigation and domestic usage. …

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The Commissioner of SARS v Marula Platinum Mines [2015] …

This startling tax case may have broad ramifications for the tax treatment of the mining industry, applicable both to future and all past "non-prescribed" tax periods. Briefly, the case concerned the interpretation and application of section 23F(2) of the Income Tax Act, 1962 (Income Tax Act) to Marula Platinum Mines (Pty) Ltd (Marula), a ...

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Stability analysis of a mine waste dump over an existing dump

Waste dumps are widely used to discharge stripped mine wastes in open pit mining methods. As mining progresses, the height of the waste dumps will increase gradually, which may induce sliding ...

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Department of Minerals and Energy, 2009, The National …

The Department of mineral resources has undertaken extensive research on the subject matter and has discovered about 6000 derelict and ownerless mining sites including mine dumps. From the research conducted to date, it is clear that there is a need for a systematic approach to address this mammoth challenge.

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Geosciences | Free Full-Text | Recycling and Reuse of Mine

Mining is an important industry, accounting for 6.9% of global GDP. However, global development promotes accelerated demand, resulting in the accumulation of hazardous waste in land, sea, and air environments. It reached 7 billion tonnes of mine tailings generated yearly worldwide, and 19 billion solid tailings will be accumulated by …

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Dump Slope Stability | SpringerLink

Most mine dumps comprise of blasted out overburden that is highly heterogeneous in nature and the size of rocks can range from less clay size particles to big boulders (less than 0.1 mm to more than 1 m diameter). This is based on lots of factors including rock type, local geology, and blasting practices. ...

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Kolar Gold fields: From fields of gold to a dust bowl

Over the years, the mines have generated about 35 million tonnes of residue from ore processing. The effluents are dumped in mounds, which comprise cyanide and silica. According to a stud y, there are 13 major dumps on the surface, occupying about 15 percent of the total land area of about 58.12 square kilometres. Some of the cyanide …

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Investigation on the Deformation Law of Inner Waste Dump

The settlement and deformation of an open-pit mine waste dump were investigated by using field monitoring and numerical methods. The creep parameters of fine soil sand in the dump fill were inverted using the steady Burgers creep model, and FLAC3D software was used to simulate the dumping soil construction and development program. …

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Current Methods for the Remediation of Acid Mine

The total removal of metals is as important as mine dump/tailing treatment. The outcome of waste from mine dump/tailing on human health, aquatic live, milieu and economy is quite severe [2, 3 ...

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Full article: Methodology for a dump design optimization …

Mine dumps can be classified as leach or waste dumps, depending upon their economic viability to be processed in-place, a condition that has experienced great progress in the …

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The impact of disposal and treatment of coal mining wastes on

Considering the environmental hazards originating from active and abandoned coal and lignite mines and dumps [4,[56] [57] [58][59], the goals of reclamation are fairly clear. The devastated ...

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Superfund Sites in Reuse in Colorado | US EPA

Additional voluntary cleanup work included treatment of acid mine drainage contained on site, wetlands restoration and creation of a new wetland. The site includes public lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service and is part of the White River National Forest. The area is a popular year-round recreation destination for camping, hiking, …

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Types of Mine Waste and Disposal Methods

First, to access the actual seams or veins of ore, the top layers of rock or overburden must be removed. Once the overburden has been removed, the seams can be extracted. When extracting the seams, there is additional waste rock that must be separated from the ore. This additional waste rock is called gangue.

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Classification and Environmental Impact of Mine Dumps

Development of a mine dump classification, encompassing their comprehensive characteristics, and assessment of the risk of the environmental impact of mine dumps are topical issues, because of the possibility of preventing or decreasing …

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Decommissioning Projects

The 380 mine dumps and slimes dams in Gauteng could be a far bigger threat than acid mine drainage (AMD). ... The issue of mine water treatment and the management thereof has become urgent. South Africa has run out of time to debate and must act, says Water Research Commission (WRC) mine water treatment and …

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Restoration of Mine-Site Waste-Rock Dumps | SpringerLink

Depending on the depth at which thesemineralbearing rocks are located, hard-rock mining operations typically disturb landscapes by creating large dumps of waste rock using two types of excavation methods: 1. If close to the surface, open-pit excavations are used to mine minerals (figure 6.1). Waste rock and regolith (the layer of heterogeneous ...

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Kabwe Mine

The oldest mine in Zambia, the Kabwe mine is located within the mining licence 7081-HQ-SML, to the south of Kabwe and east of the Great North Road in Zambia. Following the discovery in 1902, the mine witnessed the start of mining operations in 1904 and reached full-scale production in 1906. Mine operations were, however, halted in …

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(PDF) Tailings and Mine Wastes

Types of mine waste: mine waters, tailings, sulphidic wastes Rock dumps Focus on tailings dams Tailings dam construction methods Water balance in tailings dams Tailings dam failure, with case ...

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The impact of disposal and treatment of coal mining …

Waste products from coal mining comprise coarse discard (minestone or coal reject) and fines produced by the washing process. The former comes to the surface, …

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Restoration of Mine-Site Waste-Rock Dumps | SpringerLink

Waste rock and regolith (the layer of heterogeneous materials covering an ore body) are removed from the pit, dumped in piles, and pushed into plateau-like waste dumps (plate …

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Eco-restoration approach for mine spoil overburden dump

The overburden dumps which are created during the process of mining are devoid of supportive and nutritive capacity for biomass development. Restoration of these overburden dumps requires the establishment of a self-sustaining soil-plant system, for which a restoration strategy is needed to accelerate the natural processes of ecosystem …

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South Africa, gold mines continue poisoning communities

Radioactive dumps in communities. Johannesburg and surrounding communities' main concern are mine mountain dumps, made up of crushed, sand-like refuse materials known as tailings produced during the mining process, a complex mixture of metals and dust particles. Read more: The Kabwe lead mine, closed over 20 years …

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Where have all the mine dumps gone? | The Heritage Portal

Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 17:32. Should one drive out of Johannesburg eastwards along the N12 highway, a famous landmark is passed at the Snake Road exit, known as Benoni's mountain or more accurately the Kleinfontein Mine Dump. The Dump has been standing tall (92 metres) for over 90 years but will soon only be a memory as it is being ...

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Sylvania Dump Operations

The SDO is the largest PGM producer from chrome tailings re-treatment in the industry with a current annual production capacity of c. 75koz -78koz (during steady state capacity and subject to supply from the host mine). ... The SDO has exclusive rights to reprocess mine arisings and tailings dumps at current host mines, with a profitable ...

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An underexploited invisible gold resource in the Archean

The tailings dumps originating from gold mining in South Africa's Witwatersrand still contain notable gold endowments. Most tailings reprocessing operations target a native gold fraction using ...

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Impact of Mine Waste Leachates on Aquatic Environment: A …

Most mine waste-related environmental degradation is associated with leaching of contaminants from overburden dumps and acid mine drainage. Leachates originating from mine waste overburden dumps may have the potential to contaminate the surrounding water resources, especially ground water. ... Mine water treatment: Mine …

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Classification and Environmental Impact of Mine Dumps

Show abstract. PDF | On Jan 1, 2017, Mariya A. Pashkevich published Classification and Environmental Impact of Mine Dumps | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.

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Methodology for a dump design optimization in large-scale open pit mines

1. Introduction. Three major destination groups, characterized by a cut-off grade criteria and ore type, represent the places in the mine where the material receives specific treatment after its delivery from the pit: leach dumps, waste dumps and mill (Hustrulid, Kuchta, & Martin, Citation 2013).Dump leaching facilities are built to receive and treat low-grade ore …

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PROCESSING OF GOLD-BEARING SAND DUMPS: A …

A number of mines, especially gold mines in the country have been declared insolvent and require a lot of capital to resume their mining operations. The closures of these mines has resulted in socio-economic challenges to the workers as well as their families. The small mining towns of Zvishavane (Sabi gold Mine), Silobela (Jena gold

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The impact of acid mine drainage in South Africa

For coal and gold mining operations, these mine tailings are a continuous source of acid mine drainage (AMD) generation (Kleinman et al. 1981;Oberholster et al. 2013) and an environmental hazards ...

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