In situ leach mining
WIMPIE KRUGER WRITES:
To our members of parliament and the honourable minister of mines.
As an educated Namibian citizen of 67 years, I herewith have to raise my utmost concern for the intended in situ mining of uranium at Stampriet.
Our western Namib Desert is covered with uranium deposits that could be mined, but our government considers the situ leaching process, which without doubt will contaminate the artesian water with sulfuric acid and other chemicals.
There is no method to constrain the spreading of these chemicals in this subsurface water, making it impossible to use the water for farming – livestock and or horticultural farming and human consumption.
I am informed of a study that was done by JICA, a Japanese institution, to understand the linking of the below-surface water movement from the north (Tsumeb, Kombat, Grootfontein) to Stampriet and further. Did the government take these scientific results into consideration? Eventually, thousands of acres of our naturally productive land will become useless for production due to a lack of quality water.
I will appreciate the fact that on what advice did you consider your deliberations? This process is considered only because it might be cheaper to mine uranium, but the loss of production, food security, employment, and health issues should bear much more weight to stop the process.
Eventually, only a few will become wealthy, while the majority of our nation will continue to suffer.
To this end, please reconsider your decisions and stop this in situ leach mining of uranium in our beloved country, Namibia.
* Rubrieke, meningstukke, briewe en SMS’e deur lesers en meningvormers weerspieël nie noodwendig die siening van Republikein of Namibia Media Holdings (NMH) nie. As mediahuis onderskryf NMH die etiese kode vir Namibiese media, soos toegepas deur die Media-ombudsman.
To our members of parliament and the honourable minister of mines.
As an educated Namibian citizen of 67 years, I herewith have to raise my utmost concern for the intended in situ mining of uranium at Stampriet.
Our western Namib Desert is covered with uranium deposits that could be mined, but our government considers the situ leaching process, which without doubt will contaminate the artesian water with sulfuric acid and other chemicals.
There is no method to constrain the spreading of these chemicals in this subsurface water, making it impossible to use the water for farming – livestock and or horticultural farming and human consumption.
I am informed of a study that was done by JICA, a Japanese institution, to understand the linking of the below-surface water movement from the north (Tsumeb, Kombat, Grootfontein) to Stampriet and further. Did the government take these scientific results into consideration? Eventually, thousands of acres of our naturally productive land will become useless for production due to a lack of quality water.
I will appreciate the fact that on what advice did you consider your deliberations? This process is considered only because it might be cheaper to mine uranium, but the loss of production, food security, employment, and health issues should bear much more weight to stop the process.
Eventually, only a few will become wealthy, while the majority of our nation will continue to suffer.
To this end, please reconsider your decisions and stop this in situ leach mining of uranium in our beloved country, Namibia.
* Rubrieke, meningstukke, briewe en SMS’e deur lesers en meningvormers weerspieël nie noodwendig die siening van Republikein of Namibia Media Holdings (NMH) nie. As mediahuis onderskryf NMH die etiese kode vir Namibiese media, soos toegepas deur die Media-ombudsman.
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