Article source: IOL Donwald Pressly Bongani Minerals, which has been granted a right to prospect for tungsten in the Verlorenvlei region north of Piketberg in the Western Cape, is determined that drilling will begin in the area despite court action being taken...
On the website of the M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism, Lionel Faull reports on the Moutonshoek mineral rights controversy, revealing that a Mineral Resources official was in a “close personal relationship” with controversial mine bids...
Read on www.mineweb.com about the SAP’s raid on offices of Imperial Crown Trading and of the Department of Mineral resources over the alleged corrupt issuance of rights to part of the huge Sishen iron ore deposit. Read the full report on the website, here The...
Dear friends Summary of current events Apparently Bongani Minerals was awarded a Prospecting Right in the Verlorenvlei catchment on 1 July 2011 – landowners have received letters from Bongani and Withers Environmental. A Prospecting Right stamped by the Department of...
Selling our environment downstream – who really benefits? Right to prospect apparently granted On 1 July 2011 the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) apparently granted Bongani Minerals a right to prospect for tungsten in the Moutonshoek Valley, the major catchment...
Mail & Guardian | May 13-19 2011 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...
Decades after conservationists called for the Verlorenvlei near Elands Bay on South Africa’s West Coast to be afforded formal conservation protection to preserve its biodiversity, this Ramsar site is still under threat. A local authority, Bergriver Municipality, has...
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