Browsing by Subject "contamination"
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A comparative evaluation of two rehabilitation options employed to rehabilitate industrially generated elemental seepage on a coal mine
(North-West University, 2018)Mining has a very long history in South Africa and together with the mining activities comes environmental degradation. The mining sector makes use of a number of different procedures and products that causes this degradation ... -
Heavy metal concentration in soil in the tailing dam vicinity of an old gold mine in Johannesburg, South Africa†
(Agricultural Institute of Canada, 2016)Soil contamination with heavy metals is a serious concern to food production and human health. The present study was conducted to evaluate the impact of tailings from an old mining site on heavy metal contamination of soil. ... -
A methodology to assess the movement of hydrocarbons in the subsurface and associated remediation thereof
(North-West University, 2018)Petroleum serves as a great source of energy, however, with such principle importance it poses a problem as a global contaminant. Hydrocarbon contamination is a huge threat to groundwater as it contains toxic substances ... -
Uranium pollution in South Africa: past research and future needs
(SRCE, 2015)Extracting gold for over a century from the Witwatersrand basin in South Africa as the largest known deposit on Earth, inadvertently also brought large amounts of radioactive and chemotoxic uranium (U) into densely populated ...