text: As far as I am aware, uranium recovery from the Witwatersrand gold mines ceased many years ago, largely on economic considerations.  With the current decline in nuclear weaponry, the world-wide demand for uranium is considerably below production capacity, and serious doubts have been expressed about the commercial feasibility of any local uranium mining, even considering the once-off fuelling demand for the proposed new SA reactors, plus their (fairly small) annual fuel top-ups.