Hot Button Features

Below are bite-sized technical briefs with visuals on what we do in rolling back the Environmental Legacy of Mining with a view that goes beyond financial return to ensure long term sustainability, volume through-put and evidence of improvement to optimise the value of every tonne.

These are detailed in special features:

HOT BUTTON FEATURE No.3 SEPT 2021

FWGR converts to closed circuit slimes milling for finer grind, more gold

The Far West Gold Recoveries (FWGR) surface retreatment operation of DRDGOLD Limited, near Carletonville in South Africa’s Gauteng Province, is nearing completion.

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HOT BUTTON FEATURE No.2 AUG 2021

DRDGOLD's ERGO cleans up

DRDGOLD subsidiary Ergo Mining (Pty) Limited has begun reclamation – at a R3.8 million set-up cost – of the 2.7Mt 4L25 mine dump.

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HOT BUTTON FEATURE No.1 JULY 2021

The copper elution circuit

DRDGOLD Limited’s Far West Gold Recoveries (FWGR) operation south-west of Johannesburg is currently retreating material reclaimed from the Driefontein No.5 dam.

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