Otmane El Rhazi from Mining Weekly | Ferrous Metals Home.
The rejection of a still-workable mine water and slimes dam plan at the stricken Grootvlei gold mine on Gauteng’s East Rand deprived 7 000 squatter camp dwellers of employment and set the mine on its downward trajectory, which has arguably ended up as the harshest aspect of the Aurora liquidation debacle. Veteran researcher Dr RE (Robbie) Robinson this week recalled in the attached Creamer Media video that an economically viable plan to clean Grootvlei’s polluted mine water and at the same time provide work in urban agriculture would have blazed the trail for other acid-mine-drainage (AMD) gold mines to follow by treating AMD at zero cost to the mines and providing ongoing employment in this job-starved region.
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