Mine dam collapse - Jagersfontein

[mojoman]

*BREAKING STORY**
Residents of the mining town of Jagersfontein are being evacuated.
The mine dam has burst, causing flooding in parts of the town.
Reports coming in indicate that several houses in the nearby Charlesville residential area have already collapsed.
The main road leading into the town is also flooded.

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[RedViking]

Saw a couple of videos on YouTube where dams collapse. Eina...

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[RedViking]

Houses, cars swept away by strong stream of water in Free State town | WATCH

According to the municipality's spokesperson, Solomzi Phama, over 30 houses may be affected, with a portion of the township also affected. He says the water has swept away belongings of...

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[RedViking]

Phama adds that he is not sure what might have led to the burst of the mine dam in that area.

How often is it maintained and up to standard? Eish...

 

[marco79]

Dam

 

[RedViking]

Dam

Damn

 

[marco79]

How often is it maintained and up to standard? Eish...

From what I read it was an old abandoned diamond mine dam.

 

[mojoman]

From what I read it was an old abandoned diamond mine dam.

Possibly some Zama Zama engineering affected it then...

 

[mojoman]

 

[ForceFate]

It's going to get very expensive soon. Relevant government departments can be brutal when they have the upper hand.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

*BREAKING STORY**
Residents of the mining town of Jagersfontein are being evacuated.
The mine dam has burst, causing flooding in parts of the town.
Reports coming in indicate that several houses in the nearby Charlesville residential area have already collapsed.
The main road leading into the town is also flooded.

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Let me get my empathy box.

 

[mojoman]

 

[dlk001]

Probability is the catchment water Dam 10 failed. That dam has a catchment area of about 25km2. The fine tailings dams are being mined to recover diamonds as well as backfilling of the open pit void as part of the mine closure rehabilitation project.

There is an Engineer on Record for all the surface storage facilities but like with many projects, the failure is probably design implementation. The mine was sold by De Beers to a new consortium back in 2011. It has a mining legacy of over 120 years.

 

[RedViking]

From what I read it was an old abandoned diamond mine dam.

Getting flooded with diamonds would have been nice.

 

[RedViking]

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Looks like Durban when it flooded.

 

[Geoff.D]

Probability is the catchment water Dam 10 failed. That dam has a catchment area of about 25km2. The fine tailings dams are being mined to recover diamonds as well as backfilling of the open pit void as part of the mine closure rehabilitation project.

There Engineer on Record for all the surface storage facilities but like with many projects, the failure is probably design implementation. The mine was sold by De Beers to a new consortium back in 2011. It has a mining legacy of over 120 years.

BBBEEEEE at its worst! de Beers sold and the inevitable happened. The new owners just looted.

 

["D"]

the failure is probably design implementation.

... but considering the date, it is probably linked to the domestic terrorists who blew up Presley's Boksburg also ...

 

[SAguy]

These sequels always suck.. Mein Kampf was way better than Mine Dam

 

[Willie Trombone]

Didn't this happen in Virginia some 20 odd years ago? IIRC it was worse

 

[dlk001]

BBBEEEEE at its worst! de Beers sold and the inevitable happened. The new owners just looted.

De Beers probably derisked the liability through the BEE route. Still, with National Environmental Management Act amendments, it will be difficult for any company (including De Beers) to walk away from residual risks even when they transfer that risk to a secondary company. This is the right approach toward post-mine closure residual and latent risks that manifest themselves long after mine closure. South African has been robbed big time in the last 100yrs of mining with companies allowed to run away from closure liabilities.