Pan African Resources has completed a definitive feasibility study on its Soweto Cluster tailings retreatment project, pricing it at R3.68bn and pencilling in a final investment decision for December 2026.
A tailings dam at Samancor's Dikwena chrome operation near Brits collapsed on 13 August 2026 after heavy rain, releasing a multi-kilometre trail of mineral waste and damaging Eskom infrastructure.
Elcora Advanced Materials signed a binding agreement on 27 May 2026 to acquire the Eldorado gold mine and tailings in South Africa's Barberton Greenstone Belt for $2m in cash plus shares, marking its entry into gold mine ownership.
Eurasian Resources Group's Metalkol tailings-reprocessing operation in the DRC became the first such site globally to be awarded the Copper Mark responsible-sourcing certification.
An investigation into the 2022 Jagersfontein tailings dam collapse found the owner may have known of structural weaknesses since 2019 yet kept raising the wall and depositing more waste.
Five men linked to the company that ran the Jagersfontein tailings facility face murder and health-and-safety charges after the 2022 dam collapse that killed two people.
JSE: DRDGoldDRDGoldSouth African gold producer, formerly Durban Roodepoort Deep, that specialises in retreating gold from historic surface tailings rather than conventional underground mining. Sibanye-Stillwater holds a 50.1% majority stake in the company.LSE: JLPMining servicesJubilee Metals GroupLondon-listed metals recovery specialist founded in 2001 that treats surface tailings and third-party ore rather than operating conventional mines. It trades on London's AIM market and South Africa's A2X.
