Heritage Cases

The applicant applied for a Prospecting Right over: the Remaining Extent of the farm Windhoek 393, the application area is situated over a rural area of the Northern Cape Province. The area are characterized as being rural area under natural vegetation and probably used for grazing. There are not a lot of infrastructure over the application area, entrance roads, fence lines, farm roads, cement dams and two farmsteads and other small farming sheds or structures. Beside for that there are further no other structures of infrastructure over this property. Access to the application area is gain via gravel roads out of Griekwastad. The scope of the prospecting activities will entail that the prospecting area will be identified through geological surveys and mapping. The extent of the prospecting area is 3007 hectares. Information from Geological surveys will be used in order to determine where the test pits will take place. This will in turn help to determine the boundaries of the proposed prospecting area for more detailed surveying. The prospecting phase will only be: Phase 1 – Geological desktop studies and surveys, Phase 2 – Test pits and Phase 3 – Bulk Sampling. Access to the application area is gained via existing roads with the nearest town being Griekwastad 25 km north of the site. All of the area is under natural veld. Only a small portion of the land will be impacted upon at any given time and land use on the rest of the area can proceed normally. The prospecting focus area will be clearly demarcated after Phase 1 is completed. The area applied for is over the entire portion. It is envisaged that all impacts on the environment can be properly managed and mitigated and no high negative long-term impacts will take place.