Amadiba Crisis Committee turns to Public Protector over Xolobeni

The Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC), which is opposed to mining of the mineral sands near Xolobeni on the Wild Coast, has called for the intervention of the Public Protector, owing to the Department of Mineral Resources’ (DMR’s) failure to make...

More hearings on Xolobeni mine scheduled for Feb

A second task team would be established to hear oral presentations by parties affected by the proposed heavy minerals mine in Xolobeni, which is located on the South African Wild Coast. The hearings would be held at the Department of Mineral...

Xolobeni task team completes report, but process being questioned

The task team established to advise the Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu on the proposed heavy minerals mine at Xolobeni on South Africa's Wild Coast has submitted its report and recommendations to the Director General and a final...

Xolobeni appeal hearings cancelled

The hearings involving interested parties appealing a decision to grant Transworld Energy Minerals (TEM) a licence to mine heavy minerals from the dunes near Xolobeni on the Wild Coast, scheduled to take place this week, were cancelled. The...

DME to nail down titanium project rights issue by early June

South Africa’s Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) spokesperson Bheki Khumalo tells Mining Weekly that the issue of the mining right for the Xolobeni titanium bearing minerals mine on the Wild Coast, will be finalised by the end of May or...

Regulations seemingly ignored in Xolobeni mining rights case

In a highly controversial move, mining entity Transworld Energy Minerals (TEM), a subsidiary of Australian group Mineral Resource Commodities (MRC), was granted the right to mine the heavy minerals sand deposits in the Kwanyana block of the...