Company Announcement: Saki Macozoma’s Mining Company Wins Conservation Award

Tshipi é Ntle Manganese Mining (PTY) Ltd., a South African company creating a new manganese mine in a remote corner of the Northern Cape, has won a conservation award for its work in protecting endangered secretarybirds.

Vele colliery, South Africa

Coal of Africa Limited has completed construction and started mining at the Vele colliery, following the reinstatement of its integrated water use licence.

CoAL and NGO coalition bury the hatchet

Emerging coal miner Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) and the Save Mapungubwe Coalition, which has hitherto been challenging the Vele opencast mine development, in Limpopo, on Thursday agreed to work together. The parties signed a memorandum of...

CoAL suspends some activities at Vele after water licence appeal

Emerging miner Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) has stopped all activities requiring the use of water at its troubled Vele project in Limpopo, after a coalition of nonprofit organisations (NGOs) appealed the integrated water use licence. The appeal...

NGO coalition to lodge Vele environmental appeal

A nonprofit environmental coalition, which includes the Endangered Wildlife Trust, said on Thursday that it would lodge its appeal against the environmental authorisation of the controversial Vele coal project before the deadline on Monday. The...

University of Pretoria outfit joins enviro campaigners’ bid to stop mining at CoAL’s planned Vele colliery

South Africa’s Centre for Child Law (CCL), which is run by the University of Pretoria, has now joined nongovernmental organisations and the Save Mapungubwe Coalition Group (SMCG) in seeking an interdict to stop planned mining and to protect the...

CoAL increases stake in controversial SA project

Mining and development company Coal of Africa (CoAL) recently announced that it had increased its stake in the Vele project in South Africa to 100%, following the grant of unconditional new order mining rights for the project by the country’s...

CoAL increases stake in controversial S Africa project

Mining and development company Coal of Africa (CoAL) on Thursday announced that it had increased its stake in the Vele project in South Africa to 100%, following the grant of unconditional new order mining rights for the project by the country's...

Diamond-miner announces first insect ecotourism route

Inspired by the International Congress of Entomology, diamond-miner De Beers, with the support of Nicky Oppenheimer and ∫Strilli Oppenheimer, has announced that the De Beers Diamond Route plans to develop the world's first ‘Insect Route'.

Wild Coast titanium project faces opposition

The Xolobeni mining right application has been accepted by the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME), and now Transworld Energy and Minerals (TEM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Australian mining junior Mineral Commodities (MRC), and their...

But some are dead against its being mined

The Xolobeni mining right application has been accepted by the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME), and now Transworld Energy and Minerals (TEM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Australian mining junior Mineral Commodities (MRC), and their...