South Africa's system for monitoring mine tailings dams faces scrutiny over inadequate inspections and weak enforcement.
On Thursday, 13 August, the wall of a dam belonging to Samancor Dikwena Tailings Facility collapsed, unleashing mining sludge across the R566 towards the nearby Eland Mine owned by Northam Platinum ...
The collapse damaged mine infrastructure, railway and Eskom power lines, polluted a nearby stream, and prompted water quality testing and a government investigation. Samancor's Dikwena chrome mine in ...
Samancor’s Dikwena tailings dam failure has renewed debate over mining oversight as authorities investigate pollution and the cause of the collapse.
A dam collapse in southeast Brazil unleashed a torrent of mud on a riverside town and surrounding farmland on Friday, ...
On 13 August, at precisely 5.39pm, the Inyoni tailings storage facility, part of the Dikwena Chrome plant complex at Samancor’s WCM Mine, east of Brits, burst its seams, unleashing a toxic slurry of ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's mining agency plans to ban upstream tailings dams used for storing mining waste, a director at the National Mining Agency (ANM) said on Thursday, after such a dam burst ...
A Brazilian state judge on Tuesday ordered mining giant Vale to pay for all the damage caused by a tailings dam collapse that killed hundreds of people in one of the country’s worst industrial ...
A tailings dam at Samancor Chrome’s Dikwena operation near Brits collapsed on Thursday, sending a large volume of muddy material towards neighbouring Eland Mine. Samancor Chrome is a major chrome ...
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