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ARTICLES & PRESS ABOUT WATERMARK
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MINES AIM TO TURN POLLUTION INTO
PROFIT |
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Business Report [ September 2009 ]
Acid mine drainage is a ticking bomb requiring a concerted
response UK firm hopes to treat and sell water before it leaks
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ACID MINE DRAINAGE IN SA'S WITS
BASIN POSES SIGNIFICANT THREAT |
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Mining Weekly [ September 2009 ]
Key role-players in resolving the environmental threat posed
by acid mine drainage (AMD) in South Africa's Witwatersrand
(Wits) Basin said on Wednesday that there was a "tight deadline"
for decisions by the State and Rand Water if their proposed
five-point plan for a "cost-effective, sustainable solution" is
to succeed
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MASSIVE ACID MINE DRAINAGE
PROJECT STIMULUS FOR LOCAL BENEFICIATION |
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Mining Weekly [ July 2009 ]
Help is at hand to assist South Africa’s rising mine water
dilemma. It has come in the form of Western Utilities
Corporation (WUC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Aim-listed
Watermark Global, which aims to turn the acid mine drainage
(AMD) scourge into a beneficiation opportunity....read
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COLLECTIVE EFFORT |
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Water Sewage & Effluent [ September 2008]
Mining houses Mintails, Harmony and DRDGold have joined
forces in addressing an historic legacy and future environmental
concern in the Witwatersrand Basin: the issue of acid mine
drainage (AMD)...read
more |
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SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION |
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Water Sewage & Effluent [ September 2008]
Acid mine drainage treated to industrial standard will
present a less expensive alternative and reduce potable water
off-take. It sounds very encouraging that a treatment solution
is being developed to address all the contaminated water of past
and present gold mines in the Witwatersrand...read
more |
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TECHNOLOGY PROCESS |
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Water Sewage & Effluent [ September 2008]
Zero-effluent discharge: heavy metals and sulphates are
removed through chemical precipitation; waste is recovered as
by-products through a pyro-metallurgical process....read
more |
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COLLECTIVE RESPONSE TO A
120-YEAR OLD CONUNDRUM
by Marilyn Boyd |
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Mining [ June - September 2008]
In the well-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale, the miller’s
daughter has to find a way to spin straw into gold or face a
gruesome execution. Fortunately for her, a magical little man
appears and helps her achieve this seemingly impossible task.
Now, in a 21st century tale of technological magic and teamwork,
water severely contaminated by decades of gold mining in the
Witwatersrand’s Western Basin, is being turned back into clean
water again...read more |
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