Generally, mining produces mine wastes that contain sulfide minerals that have potential to produce acid mine drainage. Albert Silver Mine conducted mining of the silver-sulfide bearing ore from 1885 to 1914. However, at ...
Muyexe magnesite deposit is situated in the Giyani Greenstone Belt in South Africa. Despite mining activities currently taking place at Muyexe magnesite deposit, little information is available about the geology and ...
South Africa has many abandoned mines which seriously affect the environment and the livelihood of the host communities. The lack of in-depth knowledge of the problems of these mines, limited resources for their rehabilitation, ...
Many recent studies have shown that some of the greatest water needs occur in areas underlain by crystalline rocks with complex hydrogeology. Crystalline basement rocks underlie over 60% of the South African surface, and ...
The Mushithe coal occurrence is situated approximately 16 km west of the Tshikondeni coal mine in the Tshipise-Pafuri sub-basin of the Soutpansberg coalfield in South Africa. The Soutpansberg Coalfield has received ...
The future of energy in South Africa depends on coal as it is one of the cheapest and most affordable sources of energy; however, some of the coal is uneconomical to mine due to the thickness and depth of the coal seams. ...
The increase in the demand and market price of gold has led to reprocessing of gold tailings in many parts of the world. Mines are recently closing down due to depletion of resources and increasing mining costs leading to ...
The study focused on the geology, structural setting and mineralisation of copper-sulphide deposits in the Musina area, located in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Mobile Belt of South Africa. The Messina copper deposits ...
Solar energy development is experiencing significant growth due to national interest in increasing energy efficiency, reducing dependence on fossil fuels, increasing domestic energy production, and curbing greenhouse gas ...
This study entails geochemical and mineralogical characterization of gold tailings of Nestor Mine and Glynn’s Lydenberg Mine of the Sabie-Pilgrim’s Rest goldfields. A total of 35 samples were collected and were analysed ...
This dissertation focused on the assessment of borehole yields within the Nzhelele-
Makhado area, which is located in the northern part of South Africa within the Vhembe
District Municipality of Limpopo Province. The aim ...
Rural municipalities in South Africa have been grappling with delivering quality services to communities due to shrinking revenue bases over the last ten years. The study explored the relationship between consumer debt ...
Although clay brick manufacturing has been going on for many years in South Africa, informal small-scale clay brick manufacturing enterprises are not officially regulated. Consequently, informal brick makers in the study ...
Vhembe District has several clay deposits which are traditionally use for clay products such as burnt bricks without taking into account the chemical and mineralogical characteristics of clay being used. The ever-increasing ...
Literature indicated that several mineralogical identification studies have been carried out on clays but few have focused on the characterisation of geophagic materials from South Africa. Large quantities of earth materials ...
The Cretaceous period marked the breaking up of Gondwana, giving rise to the
separation of the African and South American continents with the subsequent emergence
of the South Atlantic Ocean. Most correlation studies ...
Giyani Greenstone Belt is known to host significant amount of gold of which about 10 tonnes were extracted from the belt in the 19th century. Due to increased gold price and mining practices that make it economic to mine ...
In the present study, the physico-chemical, applications, mineralogy, geochemistry and stable isotope of Lwamondo and Zebediela kaolin is documented, in order to understand the genesis, paleoenvironmental conditions and ...