2 Seam Mine: Coal Wash Plant, River Diversion, Tailings Facility, Pollution Control Dams and River Diversion

The 2 Seam Mine is an existing opencast coal mine. 2 Seam (Pty) Ltd. is in the process of applying, in terms of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 2002 (MPRDA) (Act No. 28 of 2002), and the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations (Listing Notice 1, 2 and 3, 2014 published in Government Notice (GN) No. 983, 984 and 985 of 4 December 2014 and amended in June 2021) under the National Environmental Management Act (Act No. 107 of 1998), and the National Environmental Waste Management Act (Act 56 0f 2008) for an Environmental Authorisation and Waste Management Licence, to include a washing plant, tailings facility, associated stormwater management infrastructure, a contractor’s yard and an opencast coal pit within the approved mining right boundary over portions 6, 29, 31, and 50 of the Farm Vlaklaagte 45 IS and portion RE of the Farm Lourens 472 IS. A Section 102 application in terms of the MPRDA (2002, as amended), will be submitted to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) for the amendments to the Environmental Management Programme.