The Jagersfontein disaster may be the touchstone that ignites a thorough overhaul of mine safety and environmental standards. Photo: citizen.co.za/Nigel Sibanda The tailings dam collapse at ...

Figure 1A colour orthophoto captured by WorldView-2 shows the Jagersfontein Tailings Dam after its collapse. Since its release, the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) has been ...

Jagersfontein Developments was ordered to cease its tailings operations in September 2020 by the Free State Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) – but that decision was strangely reversed in May ...

THE owner of the Jagersfontein diamond tailings dam which burst on Sunday killing at least three people said that the assets “were safe and secure” based on a due diligence prior to buying them.

Eyewitness News has returned to the area to assess the progress in assisting families after the dam collapsed at the diamond mine last September, releasing a mixture of mining waste that demolished ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation released its report into the devastating 2022 dam wall collapse on Friday, which showed that the operation’s management may have been aware of the impending ...

The 11 September tailings dam collapse at the Free State diamond mine operated by Jagersfontein Developments that killed one person — with two missing — has likely caused damage that will run into ...

In January 2019, a dam holding mine waste in Brazil collapsed into a raging torrent of nine million cubic metres of tailings, killing 270 people in the town of Brumadinho. The dam was part of the ...

Mashatile visited the area on Tuesday and says plans are in the pipeline to restore what many feel may soon become a ghost town. "We obviously don't expect that change will come overnight but we have ...

The tailings dam collapse at Jagersfontein in the Free State on 11 September this year left one person dead and about 300 homeless. The dam sits alongside the former diamond mine owned and then ...

The tailings dam collapse at Jagersfontein in the Free State on Sunday (11 September), which left one person dead and more than 300 homeless, has safety officers scurrying around the country and ...