The rehabilitation of derelict and ownerless mines
The DMR has determined that there are more than 6,000 derelict and ownerless mines that require rehabilitation through the use of state funds.
- Report of the Auditor-General to Parliament on a performance audit of the rehabilitation of abandoned mines at the Department of Minerals and Energy, October 2009
- The National Strategy for the Management of Derelict and Ownerless Mines in South Africa, 2009
- Parliamentary questions to the Minister of Mineral Resources regarding derelict and ownerless mines:
- In a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on 19 August 2015, the DMRE presented on the topic of State liability for environmental damage from acid mine drainage and derelict and ownerless mines
- See the Department of Mineral Resources’ progress report to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on derelict and ownerless mines (22 February 2017)
- See the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s presentation to the Parliamentary Portfolio on its derelict and ownerless mine interventions and rehabilitation programme (20 November 2019)
- See the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s presentation to the Parliamentary Portfolio on Derelict and Ownerless Mine (Including rehabilitation of asbestos mines) (17 November 2020)