The lawsuit is the latest escalation of a public battle between ENRC and the white-collar crime prosecutors that has been in and out of the courts since at least 2014.
Companies have requested a judicial review of South Africa's 2018 mining charter to change clauses related to transactions made in the past to increase black ownership.
Currently there are no set of universal rules defining exactly what a tailings dam is, how to build one and how to care for it after it is decommissioned.