CSOs 4 Tailings Justice
We are committed to building democratic community power to address the dangers of mine waste, including tailings facilities.
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Sunday World, 28th June 2025 South Africa’s September 11 tragedy has morphed into a full-scale legal battle after 26 families issued summons to a prominent mining company and two cabinet ministers. This follows the Jagersfontein disaster that claimed three lives, destroyed homes, and left scores of Charlesville residents in Free State homeless nearly three years…
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Each year, mining companies dump over 180 million tonnes of these hazardous mine wastes into water bodies — more than 1.5 times the amount of waste that U.S. cities send to landfills each year.
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By Gillian Schutte, Sunday Independent, 2024-11-22 The race for critical minerals has turned South Africa’s abandoned mine dumps into battlegrounds where corporate interests clash with community survival. These tailings, referred to as mine dumps, are the by-products of mining operations—remnants of crushed and processed ore that contain trace amounts of valuable minerals left behind after…
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Current realities, threats, resistance and our committment to alternatives for a future beyond extractivism. We, the participants of the Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractivist Economy, gathered in Semarang, Indonesia from the 16th to the 19th October 2023, to strengthen and build a broad global movement of resistance to mining and extractivism and build…
CSOs 4 Tailings Justice 