AngloGold Toxic Mine-Waste Spill Affects Mile of Vaal Tributary
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AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. said toxic waste it spilled last week affected 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) of a tributary of South Africa’s Vaal River in at least the second leak from its Mine Waste Solutions unit in the past five months.
“We appointed a response team, which included internal and third-party specialists, to closely monitor and mitigate the impact,” Africa’s largest gold producer said today by e-mail. “Operations were immediately halted, containment walls constructed, and all bolts in the critical sections of the pipelines replaced and welded.”