SOUTH DEEP MINE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME Prepared for Department of Mineral Resources Reference No: GP 30/5/1/2/2(220) MR October 2011 Prepared by REPORT NR: REPORT NR: GFI02NM39P501009B 181 Arkansas Avenue, North Block, Suite 1, Berario Tel: 011-431 2251, Fax: 086 628 5060, email: [email protected]; South Deep Mine EMP October 2011 DMR REF No. GP 30/5/1/2/2(220) MR TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE MINE .......................................................................................... 1 1.1 NAME AND ADDRESS OF MINE, MINE OWNER AND MINE MANAGER / RESPONSIBLE PERSON .............. 1 1.2 NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE MINERAL RIGHT HOLDER .................................................................. 1 1.3 NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE MINING AUTHORIZATION ................................................................... 1 1.4 NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE OWNER OF THE LAND AND THE TITLE DEED DESCRIPTION ................... 3 1.5 REGIONAL SETTING .................................................................................................................... 3 1.6 DIRECTION AND DISTANCE TO NEIGHBOURING TOWNS................................................................... 4 1.7 SURFACE INFRASTRUCTURE ........................................................................................................ 4 1.8 PRESENCE OF SERVITUDES ......................................................................................................... 4 1.9 LAND TENURE AND USE OF IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT LAND ............................................................ 4 1.10 THE NAME OF THE RIVER CATCHMENT IN WHICH THE MINE IS SITUATED .......................................... 5 1.11 DESCRIPTION OF THE MINE .......................................................................................................... 5 1.12 MINERAL DEPOSIT ...................................................................................................................... 5 1.13 MINE PRODUCT(S) ...................................................................................................................... 5 1.14 ESTIMATED RESERVES ................................................................................................................ 6 1.15 MINING METHOD(S) ..................................................................................................................... 6 1.16 PRODUCTION RATE ..................................................................................................................... 6 1.17 MINE LIFE ................................................................................................................................... 6 2 DESCRIPTION OF THE CURRENT MINING ENVIRONMENT ..................................................... 7 2.1 GEOLOGY .................................................................................................................................. 7 2.1.1 GEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................................ 7 2.1.2 PRESENCE OF DYKES, SILLS AND FAULTS THAT EXTEND BEYOND THE PROPERTY BOUNDARY ........ 12 2.2 CLIMATE .................................................................................................................................. 13 2.2.1 REGIONAL CLIMATE .................................................................................................................. 13 2.2.2 MEAN MONTHLY AND ANNUAL RAINFALL FOR THE SITE ................................................................ 13 2.2.3 MAXIMUM RAINFALL INTENSITIES PER MONTH ............................................................................. 14 2.2.4 MEAN MONTHLY, MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TEMPERATURES .......................................................... 15 2.2.5 MONTHLY MEAN WIND DIRECTION AND SPEED ............................................................................ 15 2.2.6 MEAN MONTHLY EVAPORATION ................................................................................................. 15 2.2.7 INCIDENCE OF EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS ......................................................................... 16 2.3 TOPOGRAPHY .......................................................................................................................... 17 2.4 SOIL ........................................................................................................................................ 18 2.4.1 DOORNPOORT TAILINGS DAM COMPLEX .................................................................................... 26 2.5 PRE-MINING LAND CAPABILITY .................................................................................................. 28 2.6 LAND USE ................................................................................................................................ 31 2.6.1 PRE-MINING AND CURRENT LAND USE ....................................................................................... 31 2.6.2 HISTORICAL AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ................................................................................. 33 2.6.3 EVIDENCE OF MISUSE ............................................................................................................... 33 2.6.4 EXISTING STRUCTURES ............................................................................................................ 33 2.7 NATURAL VEGETATION ............................................................................................................. 36 2.7.1 DOMINANT SPECIES ................................................................................................................. 39 2.7.2 ENDANGERED OR RARE SPECIES .............................................................................................. 39 2.7.3 INTRUDER OR EXOTIC SPECIES ................................................................................................. 39 2.8 ANIMAL LIFE ............................................................................................................................. 40 2.8.1 COMMONLY OCCURRING SPECIES ............................................................................................. 40 2.8.2 ENDANGERED OR RARE SPECIES .............................................................................................. 45 2.8.3 AVIFAUNA ................................................................................................................................ 47 2.9 SURFACE WATER ...................................................................................................................... 52 2.9.1 SURFACE WATER QUANTITY ...................................................................................................... 52 iii South Deep Mine EMP October 2011 DMR REF No. GP 30/5/1/2/2(220) MR 2.9.2 SURFACE WATER QUALITY ........................................................................................................ 59 2.9.3 DRAINAGE DENSITY OF DISTURBED AREAS ................................................................................. 90 2.9.4 SURFACE WATER USE .............................................................................................................. 90 2.9.5 WATER AUTHORITY .................................................................................................................. 91 2.9.6 WETLANDS .............................................................................................................................. 91 2.10 GROUNDWATER ....................................................................................................................... 97 2.10.1 DEPTH OF WATERTABLE(S) ..................................................................................................... 100 2.10.2 PRESENCE OF WATER BOREHOLES AND SPRINGS ..................................................................... 105 2.10.3 GROUND WATER QUALITY ....................................................................................................... 109 2.10.4 GROUND WATER USE ............................................................................................................. 118 2.10.5 GROUND WATER ZONE ........................................................................................................... 118 2.11 AIR QUALITY .......................................................................................................................... 121 2.11.1 EXISTING SOURCES OF POLLUTION IN THE AREA ....................................................................... 122 2.12 NOISE .................................................................................................................................... 128 2.13 SITES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL INTEREST ............................................................. 128 2.14 SENSITIVE LANDSCAPES ......................................................................................................... 133 2.15 VISUAL ASPECTS .................................................................................................................... 134 2.16 REGIONAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC STRUCTURE ................................................................................ 134 2.16.1 POPULATION DENSITY, GROWTH AND LOCATION ....................................................................... 134 2.16.2 MAJOR ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AND SOURCES OF EMPLOYMENT ................................................. 136 2.16.3 UNEMPLOYMENT ESTIMATE FOR THE AREA 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