{"id":3928,"date":"2024-06-21T10:49:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minetek.com\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2024-10-21T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:26:49","slug":"jagersfontein-tailings-dam-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minetek.com\/en-us\/resource-hub\/news\/jagersfontein-tailings-dam-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagersfontein tailings dam failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-cms-content\"><p>During the early hours of Sunday morning, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/minetek.com\/application\/tailings-water-management\/\">tailings dam<\/a> at the former Jagersfontein Diamond Mine in South Africa failed catastrophically. This tailings dam failure triggered mudslides, killing multiple people and injuring more than 40, as the deadly torrent washed away 9 homes and damaged up to 20 more.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is a timely reminder of the need to effectively manage\u00a0Tailings Storage Facilities\u00a0(TSF) both in operational and legacy settings.<\/p>\n<p>Locals are reporting telecommunication systems down and a number of residents are still unaccounted for. It is predicted that the death toll may rise further in the coming days. Residents in Jagersfontein are currently cut off with no electricity and no drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom, the national electricity provider in South Africa issued a statement after one of its power substations was inundated with mud. \u201cDue to the current situation in the Jagersfontein area and inaccessibility of our substation, it is impossible to estimate when supply will be restored or to determine the extent of the damage\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early hours of Sunday morning, a\u00a0tailings dam at the former Jagersfontein Diamond Mine in South Africa failed catastrophically. This tailings dam failure triggered mudslides, killing multiple people and injuring more than 40, as the deadly torrent washed away 9 homes and damaged up to 20 more. The incident is a timely reminder of the need to effectively manage\u00a0Tailings Storage Facilities\u00a0(TSF) both in operational and legacy settings. Locals are reporting telecommunication systems down and a number of residents are still unaccounted for. It is predicted that the death toll may rise further in the coming days. Residents in Jagersfontein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4,60,61],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water","tag-compliance","tag-safety","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"contentshake_article_id":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jagersfontein tailings dam failure - Minetek<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Jagersfontein Diamond Mine&#039;s tailings dam failure triggered mudslides and heavy flooding in nearby South African communities.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/minetek.com\/en-us\/resource-hub\/news\/jagersfontein-tailings-dam-failure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jagersfontein tailings dam failure - 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