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Environmental authorisations and mining organisations
(North-West University, 2005)
Mining is essential to the human well-being in many aspects. Mining activities, however, contribute significantly to pollution and other environmental impacts in South Africa. Recently much more stringent environmental ...
Utilizing earthworm and microbial assays to assess the environmental effects of different mining activities
(North-West University, 2011)
Mining has negative impacts on the environment, and is one of the main contributors to environmental pollution. This holds a potential hazard for ecosystems surrounding mining areas and also for public health in the ...
Framework and regulatory guidance to perform safety assesments for mining and mine remediation activities
(North-West University (South Africa), 2016)
This study provided the opportunity to apply the source-receptor-pathway method of solving challenges. The source being the initiation point of the challenge; the pathway, being the routes towards the receptor; and the ...
Managing biodiversity in a developing country mining context
(North-West University, 2011)
South Africa is one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world. However, biodiversity is suffering under the huge demand for natural resources and the increasing dependence of rural communities on these same ...
Soil ecological risk assessments of selected South African soils
(North-West University, 2014)
South Africa produces large amounts of solid mine waste, covering vast areas of land in the form of tailings dam facilities (TDF). Tailings material contains high levels of elements which poses potential risk for the ...
Drought effects on the herbaceous community structure of transformed Mopaneveld
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)
Semi-arid Mopaneveld vegetation structure is driven by herbivory, fire, nutrients and rainfall variability. The floristically homogenous herbaceous layer is highly dynamic and dominated by forbs. Forb species contribute ...
Barriers and opportunities to the implementation of a zero waste to landfill goal – a platinum mining case study
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)
According to Kaza et al (2018:18), the global amount of waste generated on an annual basis has reached 2.01 billion tonnes, with only 30% being diverted away from landfill through re-use, recycling, composting or incineration. ...
An integrated rainfall-runoff water quality model in a mine impacted karst environment
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)
A fully distributed rainfall-runoff model was developed for the Wonderfonteinspruit catchment (± 1 600 km2), in order to accurately determine the rainfall-runoff and mass transport model’s hydrological components that may ...
Evaluating radiological impacts due to uranium mining in the Erongo Region, Namibia
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)
The unambiguous and continuously increasing exposures of human beings to terrestrial radiations is highly attributed to naturally occurring radioactive materials in the environments. Background radiation had been increasing ...
Addressing critical water and waste issues in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) : the case of coal mining in South Africa
(North-West University, 2018)
Internationally, the assessment of mining related impacts has been a particular focus of environmental impact assessment (EIA) research and practice, with a wealth of literature on the subject. In light of the significant ...