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In response to the urgent environmental and social challenges posed by mining operations, this paper introduces the Mining Area Sustainability Index (MASI), a novel framework aimed at transforming the mining sector towards sustainable practices. Mining activities have historically led to significant environmental degradation, including water contamination and …
The pristine landscape of South Africa's Wild Coast is under threat from mining, writes Hal Rhoades, and the communities standing up to defend the land are facing deadly consequences: harassment, threats, physical assault and murder. Attacks on mine opponents have taken four lives so far and many others have been injured. But the opposition is growing …
At the event, his team was given the task of arguing for mining in Xolobeni, a stance so egregious to him that he staged a walkout with his fellow students and protested outside the venue. Although disqualified, the seeds of activism and passion against mining …
In 2016, after violent incidents in the area, MRC announced the sale of its 56% share in the Xolobeni mining project. However, this does not seem to have taken place and in 2018 MRC told shareholders that the government supported the Xolobeni mining project, although this was disputed by the Department of Mineral Resources. ...
Judge Annali Basson also concurred with the community that projects similar to the planned Xolobeni mine disproportionately affect local and indigenous communities and have a recorded history of harming multiple aspects of their lives.
Would these survive the mining operation as well as the associated socio-cultural upheaval that would invariably be left in its wake? ... Last year MRC announced its decision to disinvest from the Xolobeni Mining project and sell its shares to its BEE partner. It was originally granted a mining licence at Xolobeni in 2008, but this was revoked ...
The Xolobeni saga, which dates back several years, involves the proposed open-cast mining of titanium ores and other minerals from a 22km stretch of ochre-coloured sand …
The community discovered in 2015 that Transworld Energy and Mineral Resources had applied for the rights to mine titanium in the Xolobeni area of the Eastern Cape where they lived and worked ...
This is the first in a three-part series on Xolobeni, where members of a small community have been battling for years against a road project and a mine project. Tomorrow: Xolobeni: the N2 toll ...
Otherwise, it has denied causing environmental damage or acting illegally in any way in its mining operations. The Australian-owned Tormin mineral sands mine on the West Coast near Lutzville. In the background is Eskom's Sere wind farm. ... The history of the Xolobeni mining saga goes back to 1996 (the same year that we adopted our ...
The Xolobeni Mineral Sands Project located on the Eastern Cape of South Africa is a world class mineral sands deposit with a Measured, Indicated and Inferred Resource of 346Mt at 5% Total …
Claims that the majority of Amadiba residents are against mining are subjective, emotive and baseless, and have been disproved by a public participation process, says the man spearheading the push for mining in Xolobeni, Zamile Qunya. "Yes, there is some opposition, but the majority of Xolobeni community support mining," Qunya said.
In the case of the Xolobeni mineral sands project, we unpack the nuances of state and corporate decision making to illuminate the ways in which power, profit and conceptualizations of "progress" seek to "construct consent" around the promise of development and jobs (Harvey 2003).We explore how resistance to mining by the local community and their …
After several meetings and engagements with the Xolobeni community, Traditional Leaders and the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) on issues pertaining to the Xolobeni mining …
Mineral Commodities Limited had confirmed the presence of mineral deposits in the area by 2002. [2] As of March 2007, Mineral Commodities Limited's South African subsidiary Transworld Energy and Minerals Resources submitted a Mining Right Application to the Department of Minerals and Energy ("DME") in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.It described the Xolobeni Project as "one of the …
Mbuthuma is clear who her opponents in the mining dispute are: Zamile Qunya, founder of the Xolobeni Empowerment Company (Xolco) — MRC's empowerment partner — and the local pro-mining faction he leads. Qunya is also a director of Tormin, a controversial MRC-owned dune mining operation on South Africa's west coast.
Nine years ago he faced questions that were tougher than usual. Institutional investors as well as minor shareholders were becoming impatient. At the time neither of the two main mining ventures in Africa – the Kariba Kono diamond mining operation in Sierra Leone and the Xolobeni Mineral Sands – were delivering on their promises.
Xolobeni, on South Africa's Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape, is renowned as a biodiversity hotspot. It's also known for its community activism against mining, and in defense of customary land rights and sustainable rural livelihoods.. It is perhaps less well known for the achievements of organized local civil society in protecting and developing the commons as the …
This judgment is a significant victory for the Umgungundlovu community who have successfully brought several court challenges resisting the commencement of mining operations in Xolobeni.
In London campaigners from several UK-based organisations gathered on the 5th May to call on British property magnate and mining investor Graham Edwards to help put a …
• XOLCO (Xolobeni Empowerment Company): This is a lack "beconomic empowerment company" that is in partnership with MRC/TEM in the application for a mining license. • MRC (Mineral Resources Commodities): The mining company applying to mine at Xholobeni. • TEM: South African Subsidiary of MRC company.
Mark, born in 1962, arrived on the South African mining scene in around 2001, when he and his elder brother Joseph established MRC Resources, the South African entity that controls two local prospects: The Tormin mineral sands project on the West Coast, where mining operations began controversially in 2014, and the Xolobeni project.
In the 2010 case of Bengwenyama Minerals (Pty) Ltd v Genorah Resources, the Constitutional Court expounded the meaning of "consultation" between mining companies and communities, holding that landowners must be informed in sufficient detail of prospecting or mining operations that will take place on their land, and that there must be a good ...
The Xolobeni titanium mining project by Australian company Mineral Commodities (MRC) was opposed by the Amadiba Crisis Committee since 2005. In 2016, ACC leader …
In November, the Pretoria High Court heard that TEM intended to conduct open-cast mining activities on 900 hectares of land within the mining area, and that the mode of excavation would require the establishment of a number of plants and operations, including wet separation plants and the accompanying slime dams and tailing dams.
45. How would you convince the community of Xolobeni regarding the benefits of mining titanium? A People close to mines should be the only beneficiaries to help their families. B Mining of resources should only benefit big companies to create employment. C Mining should benefit all African people as long as they live in South Africa.
…In 2002, rare minerals were discovered on the Xolobeni coast. Mineral Sand Resources (MSR), a subsidiary of Australian company Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC) …
Read: Xolobeni still simmers over MRC mine. Xolobeni is 200km south of Durban, and is in desperate need of road infrastructure and basic services, which include running water and electricity, to ...
The ruling put paid to plans for an open-cast titanium mine along a 22km-long strip of land on the unspoiled Wild Coast ancestral land. ... Historic Xolobeni mining ruling 'strikes blow for all ...
CALS will be in the Pretoria High Court on 10 February, arguing that mining communities should be able to access mining rights applications . On Monday, 10 February, members of the Umgungundlovu community will appear in the Pretoria High Court, asking that communities be given access to mining rights applications of operations that may impact them.
