LAST week's series of articles about the threat which farmers and environmental groups hold for Mine Waste Solutions' operations in the Stilfontein area, elicited the following reaction from the Feder...

People are living in close proximity to dangerous mine dumps. Meanwhile, government is moving slowly to address the problem Nthabiseng, Gloria and Lauren have been living in Tudor Shaft informal settl...

The Xolobeni community of the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape was planning to start ecotourism projects following a decision by the Minister of Mineral Resources, Susan Shabangu, to withdraw mining the...

Minerals and Energy Minister Susan Shabangu has revoked the rights to mine in the Kwanyana Block at Xolobeni, on the Wild Coast, the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) said on Tuesday. "The mining rights w...

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A decision by Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu is imminent on an appeal to stop her granting rights to mine titanium from sand dunes along a pristine stretch of the Wild Coast. In a written ...

MINERAL Resources' Minister Susan Shabangu has told Pondoland opponents of a titanium dune mining project that she needs another month to consider their appeal against the Xolobeni coastal dune mining...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - A decision on whether or not heavy mineral mining would proceed at Xolobeni on the Wild Coast was further delayed as the Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu fai...

Mining giant Anglo American has confirmed it has received 25 separate claims totalling just over R28m. The claims appear to be separate from those that the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and Leigh Day &...

Human rights lawyers representing about 18 sick former mine workers at President Steyn mine in Welkom, Free State, said they were confident and optimistic that their more than R1bn claims against the ...

Applicant's Heads of Argument

On 14 May 2010 the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries published a notice prohibiting the use of chlorpyrifos as an active ingredient in households, home, garden and domestic remedies. ...

CAPE TOWN-The long delay in resolving the land claims of dispossessed rural communities had prevented them from exercising their rights to mine the land, the Legal Resources Centre will tell Parliamen...

The task team established to advise the Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu on the proposed heavy minerals mine at Xolobeni on South Africa's Wild Coast has submitted its report and recommendati...

The hearings involving interested parties appealing a decision to grant Transworld Energy Minerals (TEM) a licence to mine heavy minerals from the dunes near Xolobeni on the Wild Coast, scheduled to t...

A NEW round of hearings begins in Durban next week to debate controversial plans for dune mining at Xolobeni on the Wild Coast. Part of the mining venture by an Australian company and local empowerme...

On 8, 9 and 10 February 2010, the Minerals and Mining Development Board will receive oral submissions on behalf of interested parties involved in the appeal against the Minister's decision to grant a ...

The mineral rights expropriation case that two Italian granite mining companies have brought against government might be settles before the case goes to the Hague in mid-April. Mineral resources dir...