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At least one person died, hundreds were displaced and livestock washed away when a mine tailings dam burst and Jagersfontein was flooded. The key players say it's too early to apportion blame.
With mop-up operations under way after the Jagersfontein tailings dam disaster in the Free State, the department of mineral resources & energy wants to revisit a 2007 court judgment that excludes it from monitoring tailings dams.
"For the bigger dams, the bigger water schemes and so forth are usually very well designed, which is a good starting point. They are not likely to fail rapidly and unexpectedly unless you have a really massive flood."
“I just heard woo woo woo sounds. We did not have time to ask questions. We just left everything and ran.”
(Reuters) - A South African company is dumping the sludgy byproduct of mining into a historical diamond pit after the tailings dam that had stored the waste partially collapsed, killing one and leaving scores injured.