To overcome AMD, the areas mining groups, including DRD Gold are pinning their hopes on the R2 billion solution proposed by the Western Utilities Corporation (WUC), an entity they created to treat AMD to a potable and drinking water standard. WUC hopes to be online in 2012, pledging it will comply with water quality standards.

http://www.wet-africa.org/community.group.AMD.west.rand

wet = wuc!

only risk what you can afford to lose here!

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


By: Loni Prinsloo

23rd February 2011

Updated 1 hour 43 minutes agoTEXT SIZE JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) − Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has set aside R225-million in the medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF) to tackle acid mine drainage (AMD) and its associated threats in Gauteng.

This comes after the Cabinet approved recommendations made by a team of experts on the situation at its meeting last week.

Gordhan, who delivered his Budget speech in Parliament on Wednesday, said that Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa would take the lead in consulting with industry on a shared and coordinated response.

Funds from government were already available to deal with the situation in the Western basin of Johannesburg, where acid water first decanted in 2002. Currently, AMD was decanting at a rate of 50-million litres a day, of which, less than a third of the toxic water was being pumped and treated by miners operating in the area.

Canals are now being constructed in Florida, to ensure that water do not run into mine shafts.

Planning Minister Trevor Manuel said at a post-Cabinet briefing on Tuesday that work on designs for a pump station for the Central basin would start immediately, to allow pumping to start in a years time. The AMD is expected to start decanting in the Central basin by June next year.

The situation in the Eastern basin was said to be under control for the time being.

Some of the recommendations proposed by the team of scientific experts included implementing ingress control measures, reducing the costs to deal with AMD, improving water quality management through neutralisation and metal removal in the short term, and the removal of salt loads from river systems in the medium to long term.

Meanwhile, Gordhan also announced additional bulk-water infrastructure MTEF allocations, including R1-billion for the completion of the De Hoop dam bulk distribution pipelines, R952-million for regional bulk infrastructure, R520-million for the completion of the Nandoni pipeline and R450-million for emergency drought relief in the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan area.

to anyone - if you buy on this tank beware - you may not be able to sell easily!! gl

leave this one to you gib.,.

i'm leaving to someone else also hence the warning to anyone considering buying - have made me kerrrrrrrrchinnnnnnnngggggggg here and out now - but currently cash call is imminent here = further dilution as wet is running on fresh air / borrowed time right now, if they were a car they would be running on fumes!! cash all but gone, best short term prospects now just a low value short term contract - long term might come good - but also other problems in SA including the preference to award contracts to SA companies as opposed to abroad hence my warning

maybe get bought out for their IP perhaps.....

running on fumes - lol that must be a new green idea!!

http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=161781

KERRRRRRPLUNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK Gibby???????????