[miningmx.com] – HARMONY Gold has been ordered to pay for rehabilitation costs on mine land it sold five years ago, South Africa’s Court of Appeal ruled, according to a report by Bloomberg News.
Harmony argued its responsibilities to rehabilitation ended when it sold the land to Pamodzi Gold Orkney in 2008, said Bloomberg News.
Harmony’s argument, however, would “… result in the absurdity that a polluter could walk away from pollution caused by it with impunity, irrespective of the principle that it must pay the costs of preventing, controlling or minimizing and remedying the pollution,’ the court said. The appeal had “no merit,’ it added.
Harmony spokesperson, Henrika Basterfield, told the newswire service: “We’re working through the results and considering our legal options’. Harmony must contribute to the rehabilitation along with AngloGold Ashanti and Simmer & Jack Mines.
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