Understanding environmental geophysical anomalies – an interdisciplinary case study from the West Rand

Abstract

Environmental geophysics is often limited to surveying and “anomaly-picking” or performed as an add-on to other environmental investigation techniques. By combining ground and airborne radiometric data with the geochemical, geographic, hydrologic and radiation protection results, an improved understanding of the environmental contamination processes in the vicinity of gold/uranium mining and processing operations can be obtained. This information can form the basis for hazard and risk assessment studies.