"It suits the Department of Minerals and Energy and the miners to pretend that the granite mines will eventually be rehabilitated, but the picture from the air suggests that it will cost more than whatever taxes and rehabilitation trust funds the mines could generate.  It is obvious that the huge amounts of debris generated by looking for solid granite in the fractured koppies, now being spread over the pristine landscape, will never be returned to cover the diggings.  If the Department disagrees, let it organise a tour of rehabilitated granite mines, if it can find any.  The Department's own geologists will point out that much more, and better quality, solid granite is to be found away from the koppies, although at a slightly higher initial cost.  But this does not appeal to the rapers and the scrapers."