Name: Blyvooruitzicht
Other Names:
Address:
Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mining Company Ltd.
P O Box 7001
Blyvooruitsig, 2504
Location: Gauteng province, 75 kilometers south west of Johannesburg, near the towns of Blyvooruitzicht and Carletonville.
Website:
Phone Number: (018) 789-9030
Subordinate to: Durban Roodepoort Deep Ltd. (Blyvooruitzicht is the operator)
Size:
Primary function: Underground and surface mining.
Description: The facility consists of underground and surface mining operations, a metallurgical plant, tailings deposition facilities, and facilities, which have the capacity to produce 500 tons of uranium per year. It was constructed in October 1949, and first produced the yellow cake in 1951. Although the uranium mining and milling facility was closed in December 1984, it is currently active in gold production. The facility is separated into the Blyvooruitzicht Division [BD], representing the Blyvooruitzicht lease area and the Doornfontein Division [DD], representing the Doornfontein lease area. A major initiative to extend the mine's life, known as the Blyvooruitzicht Expansion Project [BEP], was reevaluated and is currently being implemented.
[Key Sources: CSIR, "SA Industry," <http://minelib.csir.co.za/websites/saindus.htm>; S. Guy, "Part 1: The Occurrence, Mineralization and Production of Uranium and Thorium," Alar Consultants cc, <www.src.wits.ac.za/pages/iaea/Occ%20Exposure%20Part%201.pdf>; AME Mineral Economics, 2001, <http://203.134.164.238/mines/au/Blyvooruitzicht.htm>; "Operations," Durban Roodepoort Deep, Limited, <http://www.drd.co.za/operations/ob_description.htm>].
Name: Buffelsfontein
Other Names:
Address: Buffelsfontein Gold Mines Limited Private Bag, Stilfontein
Location: Klerksdorp, Free State; near the town of Stilfontein in South Africa's North West Province, 160km south west of Johannesburg.
Website:
Phone Number: (018) 789-9030
Subordinate to: Buffelsfontein Gold Mining Company. (GENCOR is the operator of Buffelsfontein Gold Mining Company Ltd.)
Size:
Primary function: The main functions are by-product uranium (U308), underground, and surface (waste rock dump), mining. The facility is currently active in gold production.
Description: The facility was authorized to operate in 1957 and consists of underground and surface mining operations, a metallurgical plant, tailings deposition facilities, and infrastructural facilities (including the East Shaft, Pioneer Shaft, Orangia Shaft and Surface Dumps), which have the capacity to produce 400 tons of uranium per year.
[Key Sources: CSIR, "SA Industry," <http://minelib.csir.co.za/websites/saindus.htm>; Nuclear Engineering International 1998 World Nuclear Industry Handbook (United Kingdom: Wilmington Business Publishing, 1998), p. 121; "Operations," Durban Roodepoort Deep, Limited, < http://www.drd.co.za/operations/on_description.htm#harties>].
Name: Chemwes
Other Names:
Address:
Location: Stilfontein
Website:
Phone Number:
Subordinate to: GENCOR administers the operations of Chemwes Ltd.
Size:
Primary function: Uranium (U308) production
Description: The facility has the capacity to produce 500 tons of uranium (U308) per year. It was established in the 1970s, and was closed in 1988. MINE Waste Solutions (MWS), which is a nonlisted mine cleanup company, was expected to continue its plans to rehabilitate the facility in October 2001, after securing R75 million in funding from an investment bank and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC).
[Key Sources: "MWS to pursue its Chemwes plan," Business Day, 12 September 2001, in Julie Bain Business Day 1st Edition <http://www.idc.co.za/showArticle.xml?ArticleList=Category.7&
ArticleObject=Article.57?>; David McKay, "DRD director takes second swipe at mineral reclamation," Mining Web, 26 February 2002, in the mining web.com, <http://www.mips1.net/MGOMin.nsf/Current/4225685F0043D4A6422569
FF003DC653?OpenDocument>].
Name: Driefontein
Other Names:
Address:
East Driefontein Gold Mine
Private Bag X2016,
PO Carletonville, 2500
South Africa
Location: 60 km southwest of Johannesburg. Witwatersrand, South Africa
Website:
Phone Number:
East Driefontein Gold Mine
(018) 781-6040
West Driefontein Gold Mine
(018) 786-1900
Subordinate to: Gold Fields Ltd administers the operations of Driefontein Consolidated Ltd.
Size: The facility has 18,900 employees.
Primary function: Uranium (U308) extraction
Description: The facility consists of an underground mine with seven operating shaft systems, which access the Ventersdorp Contact Reef (VCR), the Carbon Leader Reef (CLR), two primary metallurgical plants (East plant: Shafts 1,2,4; West plant: Shafts 5,6,7), and a secondary recovery plant (the West Reclaim Plant). It has the capacity to produce 500 tons of uranium (U308) per year. Driefontein was authorized to operate in 1958, and ceased its uranium production in the third quarter of 1988.
[Key Sources: "Gold Fields," Mining Technology, <http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/driefontaine/index.html>; CSIR, "SA Industry," <http://minelib.csir.co.za/websites/saindus.htm>; "Driefontein," <http://www.goldfields.co.za/profile/operations/driefontein/drie_main.htm.]
Name: East Rand
Other Names:
Address:
P O Box 2227
Boksburg, 1460
Location: Transvaal
Website:
Phone Number: (011) 917-9827
Subordinate to: East Rand Proprietary Mines Ltd.
Size:
Primary function:
Description: East Rand is the second deepest mine in the world, with depths of over 3,600 meters below the surface, a milling capacity of 3.5 mpta, and 250 tons of uranium (U308) production per year. East Rand was authorized to operate in March 1978, and closed in February 1991.
Name: Harmony
Other Names:
Address:
Harmony Corporate Office
Randfontein Office Park
Cnr Main Reef Rd and Ward Ave
Randfontein, 1760
Location: District of Virginia, Free State
Website: www.harmony.co.za
Phone Number: +27 (0)11 411 201
Subordinate to: Harmony Gold Mining Company, Ltd.
Size:
Primary function:
Description: The facility has a capacity to produce 150 tons of uranium (U308) per year, was authorized to operate in 1955, and closed in January 1998.
[Key Sources: Nuclear Engineering International 1998 World Nuclear Industry Handbook (United Kingdom: Wilmington Business Publishing, 1998), p. 121; "South Africa - Mining: Gold Mining," MBendi Information for Africa, 14 May 2002, <http://www.mbendi.co.za/indy/ming/gold/af/sa/p0010.htm#45>].
Name: Hartebeestfontein
Other Names:
Address:
45 Empire Road Parktown
Johannesburg, 2193
Location: 150 km southwest of Johannesburg, near the town of Klerksdorp
Website:
Phone Number: (011) 482-4968
Subordinate to: Hartebeesfontein Gold Mining Company (HGMC); Durban Roodepoort Deep, Ltd.
Size:
Primary function: Underground uranium (U308) extraction and surface (waste rock dump) mining.
Description: The facility consists of underground and surface mining operations, three metallurgical plants, tailings deposition facilities, and infrastructural facilities (East and West Section), which have the capacity to produce 350 tons of uranium per year. The facility, active in gold production, produced 646,000 pounds of U3O8 (248.5 tU) in 1996. It is one of the two gold mining companies in South Africa to produce uranium in 2000.
[Key Sources: A. K. Damarupurshad, "Uranium," Department of Minerals and Energy Republic of South Africa, <http://www.dme.gov.za/publications/pdf/project_reserach/minerals/ samil/parttwo_uranium.pdf>; "Operations," Durban Roodepoort Deep, Limited, < http://www.drd.co.za/operations/on_description.htm#harties>].
Name: Joint Metall Scheme (JMS)
Other Names:
Address:
Location:
Website:
Phone Number:
Subordinate to: Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa Ltd.
Size:
Primary function:
Description: The facility which had the capacity to produce 500 tons of Uranium (U308) per year, was established during the uranium price boom in 1977, and closed in July 1993
Name: Metallurgical Scheme
Other Names:
Address:
Location: Free State
Website:
Phone Number:
Subordinate to: Freegold
Size: The facility has the capacity to produce 450 tons of uranium per year.
Primary function: U308 extraction
Description: The plant re-treated gold tailings material, which produced sulfuric acid, uranium, and gold. Although uranium production ceased in 1990, other operations continued until 1995.
[Key Sources: Nuclear Engineering International 1998 World Nuclear Industry Handbook (United Kingdom: Wilmington Business Publishing, 1998), p. 121; "What goes up....must come down!" <www.srk.com/June00.pdf>].
Name: Palabora
Other Names: The Phalaborwa Complex
Address:
Palabora Mining Company Ltd,
1 Copper Road
Phalaborwa, 1390
South Africa
Location: 550 km northeast of Johannesburg in the lowveld plains of Northern Transvaal, close to the Kruger National Park
Website: http://www.palabora.co.za/
Phone Number: (015) 780-2920
Subordinate to: Palabora Mining Company, Ltd. administers the operations.
Size: There are 2,400 employees in a complex that covers an area of 1,950 hectares.
Primary function: Uranium (U308) extraction as a by-product of cooper mining Palabora contains magnetite, vermiculite, apatite, zirconium, titanium, and uranium as well as copper.
Description: The facility consists of a copper smelter, refinery, and concentrator, capable of producing 150 tons of uranium (U308) per year. There are three separate mineralized zones of which the northern zone is phosphate-rich while the central (Loolekpe) zone is predominantly used for copper production (since 1964). In 2001, A new underground mine, costing $430 million, was established to continue its mining operations with a further 20-year life.
[Key Sources: "The Phalaborwa Complex (RSA)," <http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~mmesner/sites/rsa/palabora/palabora.htm>; "Palabora Copper Mine," <http://www.showcaves.com/english/za/mines/Palabora.html>; "Palabora - Specification," Mining Technology, <http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/palabora/specs.html>; "Palabora Copper Mine, South Africa," Mining Technology, <http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/palabora/>; "Palabora: South Africa," Porter GeoConsultancy Geological Database, <http://www.portergeo.com.au/database/mineinfo.asp?mineid=mn022>].
Name: Transvaal
Other Names:
Address:
Location:
Website:
Phone Number:
Subordinate to: Western Areas
Size:
Primary function: Uranium extraction
Description:
[Key Sources: "Archaean Gold '97," Porter GeoCosultancy, <http://www.portergeo.com.au/cgi-bin/frames.asp?tour=Archaean&year=97>].
Name: Vaal Reefs
Other Names:
Address:
11 Diagonal Street
Johannesburg 2001
South Africa
Location: Witwatersand Basin
Website:
Phone: (011) 637-6000
Subordinate to: Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Ltd.
Size: With 16,500 workers, Vaal Reefs has the capacity to produce 1500 tons of uranium per year.
Primary function: Uranium (U308) extraction
Description: Vaal Reefs was the top South African producer in 1996 with 2.372 million pounds of U3O8. In 2000, it produced 711 tons of uranium, making it the tenth largest global producer.
[Key Sources: "The Anglo-American Corp of South Africa Ltd," The Gulliver Anglo-American Dossier, <http://www.sea-us.org.au/gulliver/angloyank..html>].
Name: West Rand Consolidated Mine
Other Names:
Address:
Building 23
The Woodlands
Western Service Road
Woodmead
South Africa
Location: Witwatersrand
Website:
Phone Number:
Tel: (011) 802-1822
Subordinate to: West Rand Consolidated Mines Ltd.
Size: The shafts, with depths to 3900 meters, are some of the deepest in the world. The facility has the capacity to produce 500 tons of uranium (U308) per year.
Primary function:
Description: The facility was authorized to operate in October 1952 closed in August 1981. In 1952, the mine began the first full scale production of yellow cake.
[Key Sources: S. Guy, "Part 1: The Occurrence, Mineralization and Production of Uranium and Thorium," Alar Consultants cc, <www.src.wits.ac.za/pages/iaea/Occ%20Exposure%20Part%201.pdf>].
Name: Western Deep Level
Other Names:
Address:
Location: West Rand, North West
Website:
Phone Number:
Subordinate to: Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Ltd.
Size:
Primary function:
Description: The mine, which is 4.2km (2.6 miles) deep, was the deepest mine in the world, and had the annual capacity to produce 300 tons of uranium (U308). In July 1993, the mine closed, after producing 595,000 lbs of uranium.
[Key Sources: "UI News Briefing 94/6," World Nuclear Association, <http://www.world-nuclear.org/search/index.htm>; "South Africa - Mining: Gold Mining," MBendi Information for Africa, 14 May 2002, <http://www.mbendi.co.za/indy/ming/gold/af/sa/p0010.htm#45>].
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