Management and Mitigation of Acid Mine Drainage in South Africa: Input for Mineral Beneficiation in Africa

The book come at a time when key role players are battling to find solutions to a challenge of our time – Acid Mine Drainage. The editors of this book have been inspired by the Motto of the US Army Corps of Engineers during World War II which goes; “The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer”.

AISA

Product Information

Format:

170mm x 245mm

Pages:

357

ISBN-13:

978-0-7983-0498-6

Publish Year:

2013

Rights:

World rights

1. Introduction
2. The Legacy of Acid Mine Drainage in South Africa
3. The Formation of Acid Mine Drainage
4. Impact of Acid Mine Drainage on Water Resources in South Africa
5. An Assessment of the Social Impact of Acid Mining Drainage on the West Rand, South Africa: Towards Responsive Mining and Sustainable Cities on the African Continent
6. AMD and the Mining Sector’s Contribution to the South African Economy
7. Strategic Planning and Sustainable Management of Acid Mine Drainage
8. Interrogating and Reviewing Legal and Policy Frameworks Governing: Acid Mine Drainage in South Africa
9. Mathematical Modelling in Acid Mine Drainage
10. The Role of Geospatial Technologies in Modelling Acid Mine Drainage: A Case Study of South Africa’s Tweelopiespruit
11. Financing Acid Mine Drainage Treatment in South Africa
12. Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Technologies
13. Acid Mine Drainage Bio-Remediation and Techniques: South African Perspective
14. Deriving Benefits from Acid Mine Drainage
15. Managing the Acid Mine Drainage Menace: The Way Forward