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 ...
South Africa's system for monitoring mine tailings dams faces scrutiny over inadequate inspections and weak enforcement.
Samancor’s Dikwena tailings dam failure has renewed debate over mining oversight as authorities investigate pollution and the cause of the collapse.
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 ...
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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