Wits ASM Research Forum: Kgothatso Nhlengetwa

The Wits Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Research Forum invites you to the next session of our monthly seminar series.

Kgothatso Nhlengetwa will deliver a presentation entitled “Mercury Use in ASGM:  Challenges and Opportunities”. 

Thursday 13 August

13:00 to 14:30 

Wits Mining Institute (3rd Floor, Wits ARM Building). Wits West Campus.

Online attendance: https://tinyurl.com/4evmcjav

Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is synonymous with the use of mercury. This presentation will delve into the processing methods of ASGM as well as the various ways mercury is used. The presentation will also take a look at some possible mercury-free alternatives that are viable for the South African ASGM sector.   

Kgothatso Nhlengetwa obtained her BSc (Hons) in geology from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in 2008. She started her career at AngloGold Ashanti in mining geology before leaving in 2011 to study social entrepreneurship at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. In 2013 she delved into academia where her research work focused on a comparative study of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in South Africa. Her research remains multidisciplinary, looking at the key aspects of Geology, Livelihood, Mining Value Chain, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Policy Analysis. She is the founding director of Imbokodo Mining Services (Pty) Ltd, serving as an ASM consultant, researcher and Special Advisor to the National Association of Artisanal Miners (NAAM). She works on the ground with artisanal miners providing technical expertise, aiding in cooperative registration and governance as well as conducting research for development organisations. She is currently an MSc candidate with SWOP at the University of the Witwatersrand, looking at the value chain of artisanal and small-scale chrome mining in Burgersfort. 
 
The Wits ASM Research Forum is convened by the Wits Mining Institute (WMI) in partnership with the Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP). The Research Forum seeks to bring together interdisciplinary knowledge and critical scholarship on one of Africa’s most significant, yet persistently misunderstood, livelihood sectors, hosting monthly presentations by individual researchers, panels bringing together different disciplinary perspectives, and practitioner engagements with communities, government, and industry. 

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