DRDGOLD shareholders (“Shareholders”) are referred to the announcement published on SENS on Tuesday, 26 January 2021, wherein Shareholders were advised that Mr Geoffrey Campbell’s tenure as a director and chairman of the board of directors of the Company (“Board”) would come to an end with effect from 1 December 2021.

Cash-flush DRDGold, one of the world’s largest gold tailings retreatment companies, has named board member Timothy Cumming to replace board chair Geoffrey Campbell with effect from the beginning of December.

Besides sustaining City Deep’s production for longer, 4L25’s reclamation forms part of the extensive land rehabilitation programme, DRDGOLD is executing under its “rolling back gold mining’s environmental legacy” banner. The partially reclaimed dump will now be removed completely to liberate some 37 hectares of land for rehabilitation and sustainable land use, the company said.

The reclamation of this dump was integral to sustaining production at Ergo and would free up a considerable land patch, DRDGold said in a statement on August 5. The dump is within the 4A8 reclamation area, less than 5 km from Johannesburg’s central business district, near Ergo’s City Deep milling and pumping plant.

Besides sustaining City Deep’s production for longer, 4L25’s reclamation forms part of the extensive land rehabilitation programme, DRDGOLD is executing under its “rolling back gold mining’s environmental legacy” banner. The partially reclaimed dump will now be removed completely to liberate some 37 hectares of land for rehabilitation and sustainable land use, the company said.

There is a close correlation between sustainable development and environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns, says South African gold producer DRDGOLD CEO Niël Pretorius

DRDGOLD Limited reports that the new copper elution circuit at its Far West Gold Recoveries (FWGR) surface retreatment operation southwest of Johannesburg, is expected to deliver an additional 1.2 kilograms (kg) to 1.8kg of gold per month. The company said the additional gold would otherwise have been lost to refining charges. 

A new R12-million copper elution circuit at DRDGold’s Far West Gold Recoveries (FWGR) surface retreatment operation is expected to deliver an additional 1.2 kg to 1.8 kg of gold a month that would otherwise have been lost to refining charges. FWGR, south-west of Johannesburg, is currently retreating material reclaimed from the Driefontein No.5 dam. The material reclaimed contains high levels of copper which competes with gold and co-adsorbs on to activated carbon. Copper and gold are removed from the carbon and subsequently recovered together in the electrowinning process.

DRDGOLD's acquisition of Sibanye-Stillwater’s (Sibanye’s) West Rand Tailings Retreatment Project assets was finalised on July 31, 2018. Following the successful implementation of the transaction between the two companies, Sibanye owned 38.05% of the issued share capital of DRDGOLD.

DRDGOLD's acquisition of Sibanye-Stillwater's (Sibanye's) West Rand Tailings Retreatment Project assets was finalised on July 31, 2018. Following the successful implementation of the transaction between the two companies, Sibanye owned 38.05% of the issued share capital of DRDGOLD.