Mine Waste Solutions is a gold tailings retreatment operation that reprocesses low-grade material from old tailings storage facilities (TSFs) scattered across the Vaal River and Stilfontein areas, helping to reduce the overall tailings footprint. The retreated tailings residue is redeposited on the Kareerand tailings storage facility. A project to extend the operating capacity of this facility and its life is nearing completion.
Key facts
Location:
South Africa
near Klerksdorp in North West province
Nature of mining
Surface tailings retreatment
Hydro-mining employed to mine source material which is conveyed as slurry to the plants for reprocessing
Material Source
Nine TSFs
from which tailings are fed via four streams for reprocessing at four plants
Life-of-Operation
14 years
Contact
Tel: 018 478 4214
3 Stilfontein Rd,
Stilfontein, 2551,
North West, South Africa
Current focus
- Completion of major projects in line with life-of-mine extension
- Continue mining according to plan and achieve operational excellence in all aspects of the business
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Performance FY25
Production
96 323oz
(2 996kg)
Grade
0.130g/t
(0.004oz/t)
All-in sustaining cost
R795 380/kg
(US$1 363/oz)
Capital expenditure
R1 061m
(US$58m)
Reserves and resources
Mineral Reserves
1.3Moz
mineral Resources (inclusive)
1.6Moz
Guidance FY26
production
~98 800oz
capital expenditure
~R858m
ESG statistics
Lost-time injury frequency rate
5.41
per million hours worked
Workforce
2 177
1 633 permanent employees and 544 contractors
WATER INTENSITY
0.25Mℓ
per tonne treated
Energy intensity
0.01MWh
per tonne treated
GHG intensity
0.01t CO2e
per tonne treated
TOTAL COMMUNITY SPEND
R15m
Maximising the circular economy
As a responsible miner, we believe that mining is one of the biggest contributors to circular economies. Harmony has the largest gold tailings reclamation programme in the gold sector globally, presenting opportunities to extract gold more safely, more economically and more responsibly from our tailings dams.
