Uranium pollution of South African streams
South African government launched a programme to develop a uranium industry in South Africa, and in 1952, the first Urecovery plant came into production (Janisch, 1986; Ford, 1993; Me Lean, 1994). From then on uranium was mainly produced as a byproduct of gold by mines in the Far West Rand, Klerksdorp and Orange Free State goldfields (see ...