2  · If you want to apply for a prospecting right you must lodge the application online. A prospecting right is a permit which allows you or your company to survey or investigate …

 · On 9 February 2021, De Beers Consolidated Mines (Pty) Ltd (DBCM) lodged an application for a prospecting right with the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) to undertake offshore diamond prospecting activities in Sea Areas 4C and 5C, off the West Coast of South Africa (see Figure 1). The application was lodged in

 · Ambitious government plans to grow the oceans economy are threatened by prospecting licences for phosphate strip mining in the marine economic zone, reports Mark Olalde Whale watching near Hermanus in …

 · This technique has been successfully applied while studying seven boreholes in the area. Sixty-three core samples from phosphatic layers in the boreholes have been analyzed, using gamma ray spectrometry for the determination of P 2 O 5, U, Th, and K. Good correlation between P 2 O 5 content and U concentration has been found.

Bid to protect West Coast jewel from mining The Citizen. Dec 03, 2019 · A new threat is a major prospecting rights application for two farms on the northern boundary of the Olifants River, stretching from the De Punt property at the estuary to a point 17km upstream. Get Price Alarm at seabed destruction from SA phosphate mining

 · Community stops proposed West Coast mine in its prospecting tracks. August 1, 2022 Weskus Gemeenskap Breaking News, Omgewingsake. Less than a month after property owners in the St Helena Bay area got wind of a mining company's application to prospect phosphate and other mineral commodities on their doorstep, they mobilized …

West Coast phosphate mine stopped for now In 2011, the initial prospecting application was refused by the Department of Mineral Affairs because "the proposed …

 · SCOPING REPORT FOR AN EIA FOR A PROSPECTING . · Scoping Report: Prospecting Right Application for Offshore Sea Concessions 13C, 15C, 16C, 17C & 18C January 2020 _IMD05_Draft Scoping Report_Client.docx iii FIGURE 1: LOCATION OF THE 13C, 15C, 16C, 17C AND 18C SEA CONCESSION …

 · Existing rights and past compliance with provisions of the Act. Provide a list of existing rights and permits held by the applicant to be compiled in table form. The form should indicate the region, the location …

Prospecting rights in South Africa Green Flash Trading 251 (Pty) Ltd Prospecting right number: WC 30/5/1/1/2/10023 PR Location: Off West Coast from Groen River to Cape Town Size: 63 637 square kilometres Overlaps with four proposed offshore marine protected areas; Childs Bank, Benguela Bank, Benguela Muds and Cape Canyon.

Green Flash Trading 251 (Pty) Ltd. Prospecting right number: WC 30/5/1/1/2/10023 PR. Location: Off West Coast from Groen River to Cape Town. Size: 63 637 square …

In 2012, a number of coalition partners submitted comprehensive objections to the Green Flash Trading prospecting right applications. In 2013 the Centre for Environmental Rights, on behalf of WWF-SA submitted an …

 · a new phosphate mine on the west coast is being challenged by environmental activists and state departments who say the mine has been unlawfully established and …

 · leaching. Phosphate leached from guano phosphatizes the underlying rocks in some areas, forming apatite where the host rock is limestone and forming aluminum- or aluminum-iron-phosphate minerals where the underlying rock is a silicate. Individual deposits of both igneous apatite and marine phos­

 · Prospecting rights over huge areas of South Africa's continental shelf have been granted to three companies searching for phosphate. It could signal the beginning of a destructive mining...

Oct 11, 2017 · The West Coast Environmental Protection Association has resorted to the courts to challenge the granting of a mining licence. Elandsfontein's technical director, …

 · In this study, the lake sediment samples were analyzed for major oxides and phosphate solubility for prospecting unconventional phosphate sources. Analyses of the geochemical content of the surface sediments in both upstream and downstream lakes revealed higher contents of P 2 O 5, TiO 2, Al 2 O 3, Fe 2 O 3 and MnO and, low levels …

Prospecting right number WC 30/5/1/1/2/10023 PR LOCATION Off West Coast from Groen River to, Prospecting for marine phosphate in South Africa In 2012 and 2014, the Department of Mineral Resources granted three prospecting rights for marine phosphate to, seine, tuna pole, traditional line and west coast rock lobster fisheri...

 · "Prospecting licenses cover 150 000 km2 within South Africa's western and southern Exclusive Economic Zone, which include KwaZulu-Natal's coastline." Prospecting rights over huge areas of South Africa's continental shelf have been granted to three companies searching for phosphate. It could signal the beginning of a destructive mining …

 · "The situation has been further aggravated by technical issues identified during commissioning, as well as the fact that current world rock phosphate prices have reached a ten-year low, decreasing by almost …

A new phosphate mine on the West Coast is being challenged by environmental activists and state departments who say the mine has been unlawfully established and fear it …

 · The purpose of this study is to identify the geochemical trends and anomalies in prospecting for unconventional phosphate sources in lake sediments around the EPD to contributing to sustainable management of the global phosphate issue. 2. Study Area

 · ELANDSFONTEIN PHOSPHATE MINING RIGHT APPLICATION DEA DP, holds prospecting rights over the site,, West Coast District Municipality, .... Marine phosphate mining - Know More Prospecting right number WC 30/5/1/1/2/10023 PR LOCATION Off West Coast from Groen River to, Prospecting for marine phosphate in …

SAMRAD ONLINE is the South African Mineral Resources Administration System where the general public can view the locality of applications, rights and permits made or held in terms of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (Act 28 of 2002), (The MPRDA), and where applications in terms thereof can be submitted electronically. Please ...

Langebaan Is Doing Phosphate Mining 2018226 ensp enspbrothers set about doing some bulk earthworks on a between Hopefield and Langebaan on the West Coast, says Mark …

A prospecting right allows the owner to perform geological investigations to determine if the area contains any minerals of economic value. These are often, but not always, awarded along with specific requirements on the geological work that must be performed within a specified period of time in order to keep the prospecting right.

 · Offshore phosphate mining is a new extraction strategy that has not been attempted anywhere in the world, so it is unclear if the industry would produce job creation. According to the environmental impact assessment reports of Namibian Marine Phosphate, phosphate mining would create 176 new, full-time jobs.

 · ,phosphate prospecting right application west coast:,HTS AND PERMITSMINING AND PROSPECTING The environmental legislation …