Additionally, research into mining regions has been taken further through the work by researchers at the University of the Free State and associates into the coal mining town of Emalahleni and ...
The Emalahleni Municipal area, which means the "place of coal", consists inter alia of the towns of eMalahleni, Kwa-Guqa, Ga-Nala and Ogies. The town of eMalahleni was established in 1903. It was named after a ridge of white rock located near the present railway station. ... Its mining and industrial history is reflected in the area's ...
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Emalahleni, Nkangala District, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (013) 000-00... SHOW. Greenside colliery is situated 15km south-west of Witbank in Mpumalanga and forms part of the South African Coal Estates Complex (SACE), which includes Landau and Kleinkopje collieries. The mine was established to supply coal to overseas markets through the …
Whereas the sediment quality of the areas like Emalahleni and Middleburg towns, where mining of coal (with many abandoned mines) and ferrochrome processing is happening simultaneously, there are ...
2030 (International Council on Mining and Met-als 2012). Mining in a region is always a challenge in water stressed areas like eMalahleni. The environmen-tal safety problems caused by rising mine water levels were addressed by BHP Billiton in associa-tion with Anglo American by establishing the eMalahleni water reclamation plant (EWRP). This
South African Journal of Geomatics, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2015 174 Remote sensing and geochemistry techniques for the assessment of coal mining pollution, Emalahleni (Witbank), Mpumalanga. Mafuza Maya 1*, Chiedza ... vanadium and ferrometal processing plants are also found. Emalahleni coal mining area supports 5 coal-fired power stations …
Situated 45km south of eMalahleni (formerly Witbank), Kriel Colliery was established in 1975 to supply coal to Eskom's Kriel Power Station. Kriel's underground operation is mined by means of the mechanised board- and-pillar method, while its opencast operation mining takes place using dragline as well as truck and shovel methods.
Witbank City is an important centre helping the Mpumalanga and South African economy to achieve its full potential through its vast economic growth achieved over the past few years. It was established over a century ago back in the 1890s when about 20 underground mines or collieries were operating, and at the same time looking for more …
This article assesses the changing conceptions of the environmental impact of South African coal mining in the first half of the twentieth century, with special reference to the Witbank coalfield in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. 1 1 Witbank is situated in the Emalahleni district of Mpumalanga, in what was previously known as the Transvaal …
EMalahleni Local Municipality (ELM) is a Water Service Provider (WSP) according to Water Services Act number 108 of 1997 and appointed as Water Services Authority (WSA) by provincial Department of Water and Sanitation (DWAS). ... The catchment land-use activities is inundated with coal mining, energy generation and agricultural land-use ...
May 24, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm UTC+0. Witbank, also known as Emalahleni, falls under the Emalahleni Local Municipality in Mpumalanga. The name Emalahleni translates to 'place of coal', a mineral that has become synonymous with the town. Due to the large concentration of high-quality coal in the area, there are more than 22 collieries ...
DOI: 10.6000/1929-7092.2019.08.142 Corpus ID: 219142051; Impacts of Coal Mining in Witbank, Mpumalanga Province of South Africa: An Eco-Legal Perspective @article{Laisani2019ImpactsOC, title={Impacts of Coal Mining in Witbank, Mpumalanga Province of South Africa: An Eco-Legal Perspective}, author={John Laisani and …
Witbank. eMalahleni, city, Mpumalanga province, South Africa, east of Pretoria. Established in 1890 as Witbank, it is at the centre of a coal-mining area in which more than 20 collieries operate. During the South African War (1899–1902), the young soldier-journalist Winston Churchill hid in a colliery near Witbank after his escape from Pretoria.
Impacts of Coal Mining in Witbank, Mpumalanga Province of South Africa Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, 2019, Vol. 8 1587 environmental and health impacts due to mining.
The city of Witbank in the eMalahleni Local Government, or municipality as it is referred to in South Africa, and its economy are experiencing rapid growth. The growth …
Witbank, which is also known as eMalahleni, was founded in 1890 and has been an important center of commerce and industry since then. The name Witbank is derived from the Afrikaans words for "white ridge." This refers to the coal-rich ridge that runs through the town. The area was initially inhabited by the Ndebele people, but they were ...
Emalahleni, literally "The place of coal", is said to house the largest coal reserves in South Africa, with the greatest concentration of underground and open-cast mines in the country.
Taking the example of mining towns in Emalahleni (formerly Witbank) in South Africa, we use evidence from interviews, newspaper articles and social media to …
An acid mine water treatment plant on the Kroomdraai River at a Thungela coal mine outside eMalahleni (Witbank). ... The bottom line of a 2018 study in the peer-reviewed scientific journal ...
This article presents an assessment of the impact of mining activities in the Emalahleni municipality, using GIS and RS technologies. The random forest algorithm was used to classify the land use and land cover in the Emalahleni municipality over a three-decade period (1990–2020). The classifications are settlement, water, mining area, …
Emalahleni Local Municipality was formed in December 2000 after the first Local Government elections. To form the municipality three Transitional Local Councils (TLCs) merged, namely, Dordrecht, Indwe and Lady Frere (Cacadu). ... Emalahleni is an isiXhosa name meaning "a place of coal". Latest News and Notices. NOTICE OF …
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Coal-mining in eMalahleni raises a number of environmental challenges, including coal fires, subsidence, acid mine drainage (AMD) and air pollution.
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(2015) Remote sensing and geochemistry techniques for the assessment of coal mining pollution, Emalahleni (Witbank), Mpumalanga. South African Journal of Geomatics 4(2): 174 – 188 . Google Scholar
This article explores how Witbank, a mining city with a growing economy based on coal within the eMalahleni Local Municipality that borders on Gauteng, the …
The purpose of this article is to identify the long-term economic consequences of mine decommissioning for five selected cities located in Poland in the Upper Silesian …
Greenside coal mining (25°57′ 39.52″S-29°11′ 7.62″E) is the main part of the Witbank coalfield, located about 13 km southwest of the town Witbank (Fig. 1c). The Greenside coal mine ...
