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E-TEK assisted Venetia Mine with the development and updates of:
• Rehabilitation and Mine Closure Plans (including Closure Risk Assessments)
• Social Transition Plan
• Integrated Mine Closure and Rehabilitation Training
• Rehabilitation Surveillance and Audit
• Rehabilitation Trade-off Study
• Soil Sampling and Stockpiling Procedure
• Rehabilitation Strategy and Implementation Plan
• Rehabilitation Complement Training
• Dam Safety Inspections
• GISTM aligned Closure Plan for TSF facility
• Annual Closure liability estimates
• Cashflow models
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Years Involved
Anglo American owns 85% of De Beers Group, the world's leading diamond company. The remaining 15% is owned by the Government of the Republic of Botswana (GRB). De Beers Group and its partners produce around one third of the world's rough diamonds, by value.
Venetia mine opened in 1992, and contributes 40 per cent of the country’s annual diamond production. It is in the Northern Transvaal, 32km south of the Limpopo River in the Limpopo Province in the north-east corner of South Africa.
Open-pit operations at Venetia have ended and the mine is transitioning to underground mining, which is expected to extend the life of the mine to the mid-2040s and provide an estimated 88 million carats.
Venetia mine has minimised the impact of their operations by adopting an environmental management programme. They have also worked hard to enhance the surrounding area -- for example, by creating the Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve (VLNR). The mine is in a semi-arid region so it keeps its water use to a minimum; a third of the process water is recycled.
For more information, refer to the De Beers website for Venetia mine here, and the Anglo American website for Venetia mine here.
