MP 30/5/1/2/2/10140 MR (22 MR); Black Wattle Colliery (Pty) Ltd; Vaalbank 289 JS and Goedehoop 315 JS

Black Wattle Colliery (Pty) Ltd is applying to vary its granted mining right in terms of Section 102 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 2002 (Act 28 of 2002) (MPRDA), for Mining Right MP 30/5/1/2/2/10140 MR (22 MR) to include an additional adjacent mining area, subject to the consent of the Minister of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE). Black Wattle Colliery (Pty) Ltd is simultaneously applying for an EA in order to extend its opencast mining operation in terms of sections 24 and 44 of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA) read together with Regulations 21, 22, 23 & 24 of the amended Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014 (Government Notice R 982) (EIA Regulations). The proposed opencast expansion project will thus result in the construction and operation of the following infrastructure: haul road, dirty water pipeline, box cut and topsoil material stockpile.