A Water Tribunal hearing into an appeal against the granting of an integrated water use licence for emerging African phosphate producer Kropz’s 74%-owned Elandsfontein project, in the Western Cape, got under way on Tuesday.
The hearing had initially been scheduled for September but was postponed at the request of the appellant.
Kropz would now await the Water Tribunal's ruling.
Aim-listed Kropz has, to date, invested about $120-million on the project, which is expected to deliver more than one-million tonnes a year of phosphate rock concentrate.