Environment
Comprehensive information on environment and latest mining market data in Africa.
- Oct- 2026 -7 October
Closing the loop: Future ready, community-centred mine rehabilitation
South Africa’s increasing rate of mine closure is creating significant environmental and socioeconomic consequences, particularly…
- Sep- 2026 -21 September
Mine closure should build a bridge to what comes next
Mine closure has changed considerably over the past few decades. Environmental obligations have strengthened, financial…
- 1 September
Africa’s critical minerals boom is outpacing its accountability systems
Across Africa’s mining regions, women often experience the consequences of extraction long before those consequences…
- 1 September
What lies beneath can change groundwater risk in modern mining
Groundwater is difficult to see, yet easy to simplify. In water-scarce mining regions, however, it…
- Aug- 2026 -24 August
As El Niño risk rises, mining needs to close the gap between warning and action
As a potentially strong El Niño event develops, mining companies face an increasingly difficult question:…
- 5 August
Celebrating women who shape Africa’s environmental future
Earlier this year, more than 60 professionals from across the SRK Consulting global network gathered…
- Jul- 2026 -30 July
Mining, innovation, and water stewardship – rethinking sanitation through an ESG lens
South Africa’s mining sector operates under constant pressure to improve environmental performance, support worker well-being,…
- 30 July
Buried in Data, Short on Insight: More data does not automatically make tailings facilities safer
Mines have access to more information about the performance of their tailings storage facilities (TSFs)…
