Doornfontein 313 IP

The mining of the above area through opencast mining. Four (4) trenches will be created (at any given time, whereby the topsoil and overburden will be stripped with a excavator and stored separately and the gravel will be excavated and taken to the washing pans where it will be stockpile and fed by a frond end loader into the ‎screening/ washing pan plant (mobile). A Front-end Loader loads the gravel into the 14 feet ‎washing pan which is feds it at a rate of 6m³ an hour or 10 ‎ton per hour, 4’800m³ a month. All the rough and oversize ‎‎(overburden) stones are first placed back into the bottom of ‎the excavation, hereafter the puddle out of the pan is ‎pumped directly back into the open excavation as filling. After the ‎puddle dried off, the overburden and topsoil are put back on top again and the ‎area sloped to blend in with the surrounding environment ‎and to conform to the natural drainage lines. The ‎excavations will be ±60m in length 10m wide and ±2.5 ‎meters deep on average. Four excavations will be ‎opened at any given time. Storm water berms will also be ‎erected to keep any surface water runoff out of the open ‎excavations. ‎
The total estimated reserve of gravel is ±50’000m³ taken at a ‎production rate of 4’800m³ a month, it will take 24 months to ‎work the estimated reserve of ±50’000m³. The production ‎rate is taken at 4’800m³/month. The gravel which is relatively ‎shallow (2.5 metre), and the low production rate of the ‎applicant make these 5 hectares to be worked sustainable over ‎a period of two years
Province(s): North West