A business involved in a controversial bid to mine tungsten in an environmentally sensitive area of the Cape’s west coast has close personal ties with the mineral resources department official who was responsible for processing the mineral prospecting rights at the time, the Mail & Guardian has learned.
NEW Riviera Prospecting Right application – PLEASE HELP! The Mining Right application in the Moutonshoek Valley has been withdrawn and Bongani Minerals has instead lodged a Prospecting Right application with the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR). Please see the background information document (BID) below. We urge members to fill in the forms below to REGISTER [...]
The implication of the applications to prospect for and mine tungsten in the Moutonshoek Valley Bongani Mineral’s recently withdrawn application for mining rights and newly submitted application for prospecting rights in the Moutonshoek Valley are about low grade tungsten ore and short term profits. For the people who live in the district the true issue [...]
Dear VC members and friends More opportunities for public comment The Public Open Day will take place on Wednesday, 28 April 2010 at the Piketberg Public Library Hall, between 14:00 and 19:00. We urge you to be there in full force. Coalition members and supporters are asked to be there at 4 pm. Remember, registration [...]
The latest news from the Verlorenvlei Coalition. To date 1400 individual members and 46 organisations have registered with the Coalition! What you can do We need you to join us and to get others to join as well. To join the Verlorenvlei Coalition either email Kerry Kruger at kerry@devs.co.za or you may post your name [...]
50/50 screening 5 April 2010 at 7:30 pm The new look 50/50 will be back on air in April 2010 as promised. The programme will open on Monday 5 April (Easter Monday) at 7:30 pm and the Moutonshoek mine application/Verlorenvlei story will at last be aired! Please watch the press for details.
News from the Verlorenvlei Coalition, including the latest on a new mining rights application, membership figures, and what you can do to help. **UPDATE 9 March 2010: unfortunately, we had some issues with a virus that may have been in the pdf files available here. We will upload new details as soon as we can!**
For interested parties: a downloadable copy of the Final Comments Report submitted to Aubrey Withers by the Verlorenvlei Coalition. VC Comments on Final Scoping Report 2. (256KB)
LEAPS is a registered animal welfare organisation tending to the needs of animals in the townships of Elands Bay and Lamberts Bay up the West Coast.
Dear friends We will once again submit a collated report on behalf of the entire Coalition, and with input from all interested members. Please don’t underestimate the value of each individual voice. Many Coalition members have also registered directly with Withers Environmental Consultants (awithers@mweb.co.za) as interested and affected parties (IAPs) and will lodge their comments [...]
Meet the beautiful new logo of the Verlorenvlei Coalition, designed by Roderick Freemantle. The logo represents the connecting of individuals to form a strong united front, and the biodiversity and life (symbolised by the wildflower) they are fighting to protect. (Find out more about the Verlorenvlei Coalition)
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