Browsing by Subject "Mine waste environment"

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Baseline status of microbial activity on gold tailings facilities in South Africa

Schimmer, C.; Van Deventer, P.W. (Elsevier, 2018)

In many ways, South Africa’s landscape has been dominated by mining, given that, for so many years this sector has been the mainstay of the South African economy. As such the environmental impacts of these mining activities ...
Synergistic use of soil microbes and plants to facilitate rehabilitation on gold tailings materials

Schimmer, C. (North-West University, 2018)

The rehabilitation of mine tailings put emphasis on the physical/chemical characteristics of tailings storage facilities (TSF) and approaches to alleviate these adverse conditions to ensure plant cover. Minimal attention ...