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SCOPING REPORT FOR CHANGES TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE LAYOUT AND ACTIVITIES AT THE MAMATWAN MINE

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Hotazel Manganese Mines (Pty) Ltd (HMM), a subsidiary of South32, is the holder of a Mining Right (MR) (Ref No.: NC 256 MR) for the Mamatwan Mine (MMT). The MMT is bordered to the West by the Tshipi Borwa Mine, and to the North by the United Manganese of Kalahari (UMK) Mine. The mine is operated by South32 and is located 25 km to the south of the town Hotazel, in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality and Joe Morolong Local Municipality in the Northern Cape Province.

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MMT is now making an application to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) for an Integrated Environmental Authorisation (EA) and update to the mine’s Environmental Management Programme (EMPr) to address numerous layout and activity changes that have already taken place at the MMT, as well as proposed layout and activity changes. Layout/activity changes that have already taken place: • Expansion of the north and south eastern waste rock dumps; • Changes to the rehabilitation criteria of waste rock dumps; • Expansion of the product stockyard; • Establishment of potable and process water storage facilities; • Expansion of an existing road; and • Irrigation using treated sewage effluent. Proposed layout/activity changes: • Establishment of a top-cut stockpile and associated mobile crushing and screening plant. • Establishment of stormwater management infrastructure. • Changes to all waste rock dump heights (excluding rehabilitated waste rock dumps). • Establishment of a pipeline to transfer water abstracted from the decommissioned Middelplaats Mine to the MMT. • Upgrading the railway and railway loadout station; • Sale of waste rock as aggregate. • Re-processing of material loaded in the Adams pit. • Optimization of water recovery within the plant area.

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Friday, March 26, 2021 - 15:51

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16265

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