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Xolobeni is regarded as one of the largest undeveloped mineral sands resources in the world containing in excess of 9 000 000 tons of ilmenite a titanium bearing ore With this bounty under their feet the villagers in the area will be fighting off would be mining concerns for the foreseeable future
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ACC has been embroiled in a longstanding battle with Mineral Commodities Ltd MRC an Australian mining company over MRC s ongoing attempts to mine sections of coastal dunes in the Xolobeni area along the Eastern Cape coast The battle has divided the local amaPondo community harshly
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The major ity shareholder is Sentula Mining Limited which is 51 per cent owned by Cyril Ramaphosa s Shanduka Resources This latter were contracted the operational side thus excusing the need for public over sight accord ing to a spokeper son for the Mpumalanga Economic Development Environment and Tourism Department
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The mining company behind the Xolobeni conflict has a history of dodgy dealings By Stuart Thembisile Lewis March 24 2024 The killing of Amadiba Crisis Committee chairperson Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe has placed an Australian mining company and a longstanding mining conflict in the limelight
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Mining Companies in South Africa 31 Mining Companies in South Africa The mindat mining company directory With 783 mining companies listed Click here to view all companies by country Company Type Status African Exploration Mining and Finance Corporation Not known Unknown get price
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MRC Resources is pursuing Xolobeni via a 56% share of Transworld Energy and Minerals Resources which plans to mine a 22km long and wide stretch of the Xolobeni coastline mainly
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Getting there Xolobeni is 130 kilometres south of Port Edward but because of road works on the R61 and the bad gravel road to the coast expect a long journey A 4×4 is best Take the R61 from Port Edward to Bizana past Wild Coast Sun Turn left at Bhekela village
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The Australian company involved in the controversial Xolobeni titanium mining application has announced its withdrawal from the project but too late for Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe The anti mining activist and community leader was shot dead in front of his young son in March we were part of a group of NGOs who demanded justice for him and issued a letter two months later lamenting
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Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane has declared an 18 month moratorium on mining in Xolobeni on the Eastern Cape Wild Coast Zwane s intention was gazetted on 15 September 2024 in terms of section 49 1 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act which allows the minister to prohibit or restrict prospecting or mining
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Jul 29 2021According to Johan Lorenzen an associate at Richard Spoor Attorneys 68 out of 72 homesteads within the x 22km mining area oppose the mine and are their clients but some members of the Xolobeni community who do not live within the exact mining area support the mine and the issue has led to bitter fights
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The Australian mining company seeking the right to mine in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape has been lashed for its treatment of a community in the Western Cape where it has been accused of breaching its legal obligations
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The South African government has thus far taken no meaningful steps to ensure the safety of anti mining activists at Xolobeni or to investigate complaints submitted to authorities about breaches of environmental mining and labour laws at the very profitable Tormin mine
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Jun 12 2016This is Xolobeni a remote village on the eastern shore of South Africa and the focus of a bitter dispute over a massive titanium mining project The outcome will have far reaching consequences
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>Mining > Sand mining > South Africa >Wildcoast >Xolobeni The Xolobeni Heavy Minerals Sands Project on diba was due to istine inite zircon rutile and zed community that stricken Those s the proposed 1 have nsive outcomes of this EIA will be explored in the following sections Backgr ound The proposed mining site is located in
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The Xolobeni 40 workers The Xolobeni community is now in court in Pretoria to stop the mineral resources department from handing mining rights over to the company without their consent
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Skulduggery and dune mining From Noseweek by Erika Schutze Residents in the Xolobeni district in Pondoland find themselves the victims of the manipulative tactics of an Australian mining company on the hunt for titanium deposits the tunnel vision of the Department of Minerals and Energy as well as a couple of scheming ANC bigwigs ex of the Department of Trade and Industry intent on
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Xolobeni — the mine the murder and the DG A voice from the grave accuses Sandile Nogxina a former director general and now advisor to the mining minister of betraying a community Some stories intersect at many levels Such is the saga of Xolobeni the unique coastal region across the Eastern Cape border from the town of Port Edward
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The meaning of the Xolobeni judgment Wilmien Wicomb writes on the ruling in the context of SA s land debate South Africans have spent much of 2024 debating whether the Constitution must be amended to explicitly provide for expropriation of land without compensation Lost in this debate is the reality that thousands of South Africans have
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This judgment is a significant victory for the Umgungundlovu community who have successfully brought several court challenges resisting the commencement of mining operations in Xolobeni
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The LRC says that the mining right should never have been granted because l The Xolobeni area is part of a protected marine area and mining required the written permission of the minister the provincial MEC and the minister of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism DEAT Such written permission was never provided
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Nov 15 2022The claims which amounted to over million were filed against the defendants for their public criticism of MRC and MSR s conduct relating to a proposed mine at Xolobeni on South Africa s Wild Coast and at its existing Tormin mine on the West Coast of South Africa
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Nov 15 2022The Constitutional Court heard two appeals one by the mining company and one by the defendants against the 2024 judgment handed down by the Western Cape High Court in favour of the defendants In her judgment Judge Patricia Goliath described SLAPP suits as constituting the weaponisation of the legal system and cautioned against the abuse of power and resources which characterise SLAPP suits
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Situated ∼360km north of Cape Town on the west coast of South Africa the Tormin Mineral Sands Operation consists of a number of high grade placer beach and strandline mineral sands deposits hosting some of the richest grades in the world of naturally occurring zircon ilmenite rutile magnetite and garnet Geology and Resource/Reserve
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DRAGOON Ariz Dec 22 2024 PRIMEZONE The Directors of Nord Resources Corporation Other OTC NRDS are pleased to announce that Nord
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Nov 14 2022Mining in Xolobeni Rare minerals were first discovered on the Xolobeni coast in 2024 MSR and MRC want to extract millions of tons of ilmenite titanium iron oxide rutile zircon
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Xolobeni community has been marred by ongoing violence over Australian owned mining company MRC s rights to mine titanium The Xolobeni community in the Wild Coast has been plagued for
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Xolobeni activist defies death threats to protect her ancestral land Zanele and Nonhle background Mbuthuma during an anti mining march to Mnyameni Estuary in July 2024 Nonhle is one of the
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