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Sasol Alexander Mining Project

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Sasol Mining (Pty) Ltd (hereafter referred to as Sasol Mining) operates several underground coal mines near Secunda, Mpumalanga Province. To ensure an uninterrupted coal supply to the Sasol Operations (SO) in Secunda, Sasol Mining has acquired new reserves and in future will deploy its mining activities into these new areas. These areas are the Alexander Block 2, 3 and 4, herein referred as the “Alexander Mining Project”.

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The Alexander mining right, with Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) reference number MP 30/5/1/2/2/ 10125MR, was transferred from Anglo American Inyosi Coal (Pty) Ltd (AAIC)1 to Sasol Mining on 29/04/2018. The Alexander coal reserves are required to replace coal currently purchased from the Isibonelo Colliery, when the Isibonelo operations cease. A combination of Sasol Mining operations is scheduled to supply coal to SO. The proposed Alexander Mining Project is a greenfields project that will include opencast mining operations, to extract coal from the No.4 and No.5 Coal Seams of Block 2. Sasol Mining has indicated that they may decide to mine additional areas of the remaining reserves at Alexander in future via underground mining, however this is not currently in the project plan and has not been assessed as part of this study. A new environmental application and licensing process would be required for additional mining, should Sasol Mining decide to mine these areas in future. The Alexander Mining Project also includes the development of the following surface infrastructure at Block 2: • Mine complex (including offices, parking, change houses, workshops, substation, haul roads, Run of Mine (ROM) tip, temporary coal stockpile, Pollution Control Dam (PCD), canals, contaminated and topsoil stockpiles, a Sewage Treatment Plant, etc); • Overland conveyor; • Access roads; • Powerlines; and • Potable and dirty water pipelines The opencast mining activities at Alexander are envisaged to continue for thirteen (13) years. Jones & Wagener (Pty) Ltd Engineering & Environmental Consultants (J&W) has been appointed as an independent Environmental Assessment Practitioner (EAP) to undertake an Integrated Regulatory Process (IRP) for the required environmental applications and licences for the proposed Alexander Mining Project. J&W appointed Digby Wells Environmental to complete the heritage resources management process for the Alexander Mining Project.

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Friday, August 26, 2022 - 10:20

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