“…Apart from waste rock dumps and tailings, surface runoff from open pit mine faces, pit workings, underground workings, spent heaps, and process waste are a few more types of mine activities that could produce AMD. (Perry et al;Naidoo, 2017). Several developed countries such as USA, China, Australia and South Africa have abandoned mine sites that are struggling to clean up their environments because of issues with acid mine drainage (Morin and Hutt, 1994;Naidoo, 2017).…”