SOUTH AFRICA MINES CAUSE DIRTY WATER TIME BOMB
December 1st, 2010
BY BILL CORCORAN
IT would appear the South African government has been spurred into action to fight the threat of rising acid mine drainage (AMD), a poisonous side effect of underground mining. Faced with environmentalist claims that with no action, acidic water will leach from disused mines across South Africa to contaminate 80% of fresh water sources by 2015, the government established a ministerial task force to investigate the threat in late October. Cabinet spokesman Vusi Mona said experts would probe the impact of AMD flowing out of disused mines into ...
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