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Scoping Report SCOPING REPORT FOR LISTED ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH MINING RIGHT AND/OR BULK SAMPLING ACTIVITIES INCLUDING TRENCHING IN CASES OF ALLUVIAL DIAMOND PROSPECTING. SUBMITTED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORIZATIONS IN TERMS OF THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACT, 1998 AND THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT WASTE ACT, 2008 IN RESPECT OF LISTED ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE BEEN TRIGGERED BY APPLICATIONS IN TERMS OF THE MINERAL AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT, 2002 (MPRDA) (AS AMENDED). NAME OF APPLICANT: Samancor Chrome Limited TEL NO: +27 13 249 4407 FAX NO: +27 86 233 3976 POSTAL ADDRESS: PostNet Suite 803, Private Bag X9, Benmore, South Africa, 2010 PHYSICAL ADDRESS: 1st Floor, Block B, Cullinan Place, Cullinan Close, Morningside, Sandton, SA, 2196 FILE REFERENCE NUMBER SAMRAD: NW30512210109MR IMPORTANT NOTICE In terms of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (Act 28 of 2002 as amended), the Minister must grant a prospecting or mining right if among others the mining “will not result in unacceptable pollution, ecological degradation or damage to the environment”. Unless an Environmental Authorisation can be granted following the evaluation of an Environmental Impact Assessment and an Environmental Management Programme report in terms of the National Environmental Management Act (Act 107 of 1998) (NEMA), it cannot be concluded that the said activities will not result in unacceptable pollution, ecological degradation or damage to the environment. In terms of section 16(3)(b) of the EIA Regulations, 2014, any report submitted as part of an application must be prepared in a format that may be determined by the Competent Authority and in terms of section 17 (1) (c) the competent Authority must check whether the application has taken into account any minimum requirements applicable or instructions or guidance provided by the competent authority to the submission of applications. It is therefore an instruction that the prescribed reports required in respect of applications for an environmental authorisation for listed activities triggered by an application for a right or permit are 1 submitted in the exact format of, and provide all the information required in terms of, this template. Furthermore please be advised that failure to submit the information required in the format provided in this template will be regarded as a failure to meet the requirements of the Regulation and will lead to the Environmental Authorisation being refused. It is furthermore an instruction that the Environmental Assessment Practitioner must process and interpret his/her research and analysis and use the findings thereof to compile the information required herein. (Unprocessed supporting information may be attached as appendices). The EAP must ensure that the information required is placed correctly in the relevant sections of the Report, in the order, and under the provided headings as set out below, and ensure that the report is not cluttered with un-interpreted information and that it unambiguously represents the interpretation of the applicant. OBJECTIVE OF THE SCOPING PROCESS 1) The objective of the scoping process is to, through a consultative process— (a) identify the relevant policies and legislation relevant to the activity; (b) motivate the need and desirability of the proposed activity, including the need and desirability of the activity in the context of the preferred location; (c) identify and confirm the preferred activity and technology alternative through an impact and risk assessment and ranking process; (d) identify and confirm the preferred site, through a detailed site selection process, which includes an impact and risk assessment process inclusive of cumulative impacts and a ranking process of all the identified alternatives focusing on the geographical, physical, biological, social, economic, and cultural aspects of the environment; (e) identify the key issues to be addressed in the assessment phase; (f) agree on the level of assessment to be undertaken, including the methodology to be applied, the expertise required as well as the extent of further consultation to be undertaken to determine the impacts and risks the activity will impose on the preferred site through the life of the activity, including the nature, significance, consequence, extent, duration and probability of the impacts to inform the location of the development footprint within the preferred site; and (g) identify suitable measures to avoid, manage, or mitigate identified impacts and to determine the extent of the residual risks that need to be managed and monitored. _________ 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Project Title Proposed establishment of a new underground mining area by Samancor Chrome Limited (Samancor) on Turffontein 462 JQ. The new mining area will be accessed via the existing Buffelsfontein East Section Shaft which requires a Mining Right, as contemplated in section 22 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (Act No. 28 of 2002). Purpose Statement This report seeks to satisfy the objective of the scoping process, associated with the underground mining of the Turffontein 462 JQ Farm, by means of the following: Identifying legislation which may be triggered by the proposed project; Outlining the need and desirability of the proposed project; Determining and motivate the preferred site, activity and technology alternatives; Identifing the expected potential environmental and social impacts; Outlining the method by which the potential impacts will be assessed during the Environmental Impact Reporting process (EIR) phase; Defining/outlining possible cumulative impacts; Outlining the Plan of Action (PoA) for the EIR phase; Defining what specialist studies will be undertaken during the EIR phase; and Outlining the methodology to be applied to the specific assessments. The overarching purpose of the Scoping and Environmental Impact Reporting (S&EIR) process (Environmental Authorisation process) is to obtain approval from the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), in accordance with the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (NEMA), as amended, and the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (MPRDA) (as amended), for the proposed underground mining of the Turffontein 462 JQ Farm. Introduction Samancor currently operates two sets of mines and three alloy producing plants, in the North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa. The Mines are called Eastern Chrome Mines (ECM) and Western Chrome Mines (WCM). WCM is located in the Rustenburg area within the North West Province. ECM is located near the Lydenburg/Steelpoort area of the Limpopo Province. The three smelters are called Ferrometals, Middelburg Ferrochrome and Tubatse Ferrochrome. The three smelting operations are located in the northern and north-eastern parts of South Africa. The Samancor WCM is comprised of (listed from west to east): Elandsdrift Section; The Mooinooi Section; The Buffelsfontein West Section; and The Buffelsfontein East Section. 3 As part of an extension to the existing Samancor WCM, the company submitted a Mining Right application to the DMR in order to transfer/upgrade the existing Turffontein 462 JQ Farm Prospecting Right into a Mining Right. Along with the Mining Right application the company submitted a Mine Works Program (MWP) which defined the depth of the ore reserve which is targeted by Samancor and the methods proposed to extract the ore reserve feasibly. The primary targeted ore seams include both the MG1 and MG2. The seams are considered extremely rich in chromite. Samancor proposes to access the Turffontein farm underground area via the existing decline shaft at the Buffelsfontein East Section. As part of the 2008 Environmental Management Programme (EMPR) amendment the following shafts were approved: New material transport shaft (decline shaft) near the plant area (Mooinooi Section) – Currently in construction phase; Two decline access shafts at the proposed section (Buffelsfontein West Section) – Construction phase has not commenced; and Two decline access shafts at the proposed section (Buffelsfontein East Section) – Established – operational phase. Note: Lonmin Plc (Lonmin) holds Mining Rights on the Turffontein 462 – JQ Farm however Lonmin’s Mining Rights refers only to the UG2 and Merensky Reefs. The Lonmin targeted reefs occur at a far shallower depth than that of the MG reef (including MG1 and MG2 seams). The proposed project is associated with the primary extraction and primary processing of ore thus falls under the jurisdiction of the DMR (competent authority). Background Samancor holds two Mining Right (MR)s, related to the WCM, which include the following: NW 482 MR (SAM/M7/7) (Old Order – ML 21/1994) covering the Elandsdrift, Elandskraal and Buffelsfontein Farms. NW 481 MR (SAM/M7/16) (Old Order – ML 21/1994) which is only applicable to the Elandskraal Farm. Prospecting Right NW 1333 PR (P/SAM/GEN/26) forms the subject of this application for Environmental Authorisation. Before the Prospecting Right can be upgraded to a Mining Right, the project must be approved in terms of relevant environmental legislation, in this case the NEMA and MPRDA. The Environmental Authorisation will be linked to the Mining Right approved over the Turffontein Farm (excluding the UG2 and Merensky Reefs). However, it should be noted that although the Environmental Authorisation resulting from this application will be linked directly to the Turffontein Farm, the Farm underground workings will be accessed by an
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