This project focuses on mine closure and responsible mining in South Africa. The goal is to create a discourse of toxic commons, run by a synthetic perspective that solves residual infrastructure and altered water systems on a regional scale, which also impacts the local energy and food systems. Extraction (mining) results in significant, irreversible change, in which the degradation of the environmental and human (local) recourses is not adequately acknowledged. The overall environmental degradation and the marginalized communities are also excluded from alternative futures. This geographical misbalance between local quality and global commodities is fundamental to the problem.