THE government is to spend about R100-million over the next 10 to 15 years to clean up abandoned asbestos mines and dumps in the Northern Province, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga, according to the Business Report. R45-million has already been spent over the past 13 years rehabilitating the dumps and mines. The budget this year is R9,1-million, most of which came from the department of minerals and energy, the paper says.