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MINERAL 'WRONGS'

20th January 2017

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

     

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A company applying for mineral rights ended up getting mineral ‘wrongs’, the High Court has found. The court found that Aquila Steel South Africa was being treated unfairly by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), which had opted to do the bidding of the Pan African Mineral Development Company (PAMDC), even though this triple-government-owned organisation remained bone idle. The PAMDC did not even bother to convert the old-order rights to new-order rights and has lost out on failing to use the rights, which Aquila is champing at the bit to exercise. This is the second time in recent months that the DMR has been hauled over the coals by a court of law for failing to do its job properly.

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