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About Us
Minewaste Circular Resources (Pty) Ltd is a circular mining solutions company transforming mine waste into valuable, revenue-generating resources. We partner with mines across Africa to convert waste rock, tailings, and slag—traditionally seen as environmental and financial liabilities—into sustainable ESG and CSR assets, leaving zero waste behind.
We redefine mine waste as a resource, breaking the linear “take–make–dispose” cycle and enabling a regenerative mining future where nothing goes to waste.
Our Mission
To lead the transition toward sustainable, circular mining by delivering solutions that are environmentally responsible, economically viable, and socially impactful.
Our Vision
A circular, zero-waste mining industry where waste becomes wealth, liabilities become opportunities, and circularity drives long-term value for companies, communities, and the environment.
Why It Matters
Mining built Africa’s industrial backbone — but it left behind a toxic legacy.
Billions of tonnes of tailings, slag, and waste rock continue to accumulate across the continent. Most of it sits in dams and dumps that leak, fail, and contaminate water, destroy ecosystems, threaten communities, and leave mining companies with massive long-term liabilities.
And the challenge is accelerating.
Mine waste volumes are projected to grow by up to 40% in the next 20 years, intensifying risks to people, the planet, and profit.
At the same time, the world urgently needs low-carbon materials, land rehabilitation, and inclusive economic development.
This is no longer just an environmental issue — it’s an economic, social, and moral imperative.
We exist to turn this crisis into opportunity.
By transforming mine waste into valuable resources, we enable a circular, regenerative mining future — one that is smarter, safer, and built for long-term sustainability.
Our Value
We turn mining’s biggest challenges into long-term environmental, social, and economic value.
Turning Waste into Opportunity — Reducing liabilities
We transform mine waste into valuable resources — reducing liabilities and unlocking new revenue.
Driving Real ESG & CSR Impact
Our circular solutions help mining companies meet ESG goals, strengthen sustainability performance, and deliver community benefits through jobs, skills, and enterprise development.
Reducing Risk & Ensuring Compliance
We address environmental, safety, and regulatory risks by stabilizing waste, reducing pollution, and supporting responsible closure and rehabilitation planning.
Enabling a Just & Circular Economy
We advance local beneficiation, circular manufacturing, and green industrial growth — contributing to inclusive, sustainable development in Africa.
Our Impact and The SDGs
We deliver a triple bottom line impact, transforming mining into a more sustainable and socially responsible sector while supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Environmental Impact
We divert hazardous mine waste away from dams and dumps, rehabilitate degraded land through nature-based and industrial solutions, reduce pollution and carbon footprints, and develop circular products such as construction and industrial materials made from mine waste.
SDGs: 11, 12, 13, 15
Social Impact
Our projects create local jobs, build skills, empower mine-affected communities, and support local enterprises — contributing to long-term social upliftment and inclusive development.
SDGs: 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11
Economic Impact
By converting waste into valuable resources, we unlock new value chains, reduce liabilities, generate new revenue opportunities for mining clients, and support Africa’s circular manufacturing and green industrial growth.
SDGs: 8, 9, 12
Why Work With Us
We are not just service providers — we are strategic partners in profitability, sustainability, and long-term value creation.
End-to-End Execution
We manage the full lifecycle of mine waste repurposing projects — from assessment to implementation and operation.Custom, Site-Specific Solutions
Every solution is tailored to your unique waste streams, regulatory requirements, risk profile, and sustainability goals.Science-Backed Delivery
We collaborate with leading research institutions, engineers, and sustainability experts to ensure our solutions are practical, scalable, and future-ready.Built-In ESG Value
We reduce environmental risk, support safer operations, and enable community upliftment — strengthening performance across all ESG pillars.Triple-Bottom-Line Impact
Our projects deliver measurable environmental, social, and economic value, aligned with ESG, CSR, and mine closure and rehabilitation plans.First-of-Its-Kind in Africa
We are pioneers in applying circular economy principles to mining waste at scale — using a globally inspired model tailored for African mining realities.Circular Economy Champions
We repurpose mine waste into valuable inputs for other industries, supporting a just, circular, and sustainable economic transition.
Meet Our Founder
Keletso M. Tolo
Founder & Director
BSc Mining Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
Keletso is a mining professional, ESG advocate, and circular economy innovator with a bold vision for transforming Africa’s mining sector. With hands-on experience in mine operations and a deep understanding of the environmental and social challenges facing the industry, she founded Minewaste Circular Resources to change how mine waste is viewed — not as liabilities, but as opportunities for regeneration and value creation.
Her philosophy is rooted in impact, innovation, and justice.
“Our mission goes beyond waste recovery — we’re building bold, circular systems that restore ecosystems, uplift communities, and unlock real economic value for mines and society. Circular mining is the future, and in Africa it must be profitable, just, inclusive, and forward-looking. We’re not only here to clean up the past — we’re here to build the future.”
— Keletso M. Tolo
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Contact Us
Office Hours: 8am–6pm (Mon - Fri)
Address: Midrand, South Africa
Phone: +27 67 431 5378
Email: info@minewastecircular.com
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