Scoping Report as part of the Environmental Authorisation Application for the Springfield Coal Mining Project and Redan Siding by Glubay Coal (Pty) Ltd in the District of Vereeniging and Meyerton, Gauteng.

Glubay Coal (Pty) Ltd is an affiliated company of Canyon Resources which is a mining and exploration company with current operations in Mpumalanga and Gauteng. The company has five operational coal mines, Hakhano and Singani Colliery in the Middelburg area, Phalanndwa and Phalanndwa Extension Colliery in the Delmas area and Khanye Colliery situated in the Bronkhorstspruit area. All five are opencast coal mines, mined through the typical truck and shovel method with concurrent rehabilitation being done at all five sites.

The Springfield Coal Mining Project (Springfield Project) is a proposed opencast colliery linked to Redan Siding, located in, on and around the old workings of the abandoned Springfield Colliery, 7km South of Meyerton & 10km North of Vereeniging in the Sedibeng District Municipality of the Gauteng Province. The Mining Right application area falls over the following farms located partially in the Midvaal Local Municipality and the Emfuleni Local Municipality:
• Kookfontein 545 IQ;
• Damfontein 541 IQ;
• Smaldeel 542 IQ;
• Waldrift 599 IQ;
• Vlakfontein 546.