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The 2022 Jagersfontein Tailings Dam Collapse was a structural failure of a mine tailings dam near Jagersfontein, located in the Free State province of South Africa, resulting in a mudslide. [3] [4] [1] [2] [5]
South African authorities shut down the Jagersfontein diamond tailings dam in 2020 due to high water levels before allowing it to reopen last year, a company official said on Monday, a day after ...
Tailings dam failures involving significant ecological damage include: the Jagersfontein Tailings Dam Collapse, South Africa in September 2022, was a structural failure of a tailings dam used by a stockpile mineral reprocessor, resulting in a mudslide through the town and surrounding farmland.
Jagersfontein was the second town in South Africa and the first town in the Orange Free State to have electricity and piped water. [ 21 ] In the early years, water used to be supplied with a unique system of coin-operated water pumps, using so-called Water Pennies, [ 22 ] situated on street corners.
A mine dam wall collapse in South Africa's Free State province swept away houses and cars on Sunday, the provincial government said, killing one person and injuring another 40. The disaster ...
When the first dam collapsed, a massive surge of water roared so swiftly into Mike Gorthy’s lakefront home that he returned from securing his boats outside to discover water above the light ...
A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, ... 2022 Jagersfontein Dam Collapse: 2022-09-11 Jagersfontein ...
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