IMAGE GALLERY: The leach tank break at Ranger Mine
Mining Mayhem has a gallery of images of the Ranger Mine leach tank break.
On Dec. 8 a leach tank with 1,450 cubic metre capacity failed at Energy Resources Australia’s Ranger Mine (ASX:ERA) spilling mud, water, ore and acid. The mine is located within the Kakadu National Park.
Mine officials say the spill was contained. Regulatory officials are investigating.
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2 Comments
Mike Cordell
Clearly dividends are priority over safety and maintenance. Regulators are recieving some of those dividends.
golddigger69
Spin Spin Spin! Who ever put the word “leak” in to any story about this was just soft-soaping the incident. Wholesale collapse seems to be the only way to describe what happened. Rio certainly has more than egg on their face over this.
The general foolishness and disregard of normal duty of care by the industry is truly a phenom of gigantic proportion–can we deny that our negligence (fuelled by unquantifiable greed?) is our own worst enemy?