Scoping Report for the Mining Right Application for Ikwezi Vanadium Pty Ltd on farms Morewag 921 JQ, Haakdoornfontein 12 JQ and Varkfontein 13 JQ within the Bojanala District of the Moses Kotane Local Municipality, North West Prov

Ikwezi Vanadium (Pty) Ltd (Ikwezi) applied for a mining right in terms of Section 22(1) of the
Mineral and Resources Petroleum Resources Development Act (Act No. 28 of 2002) as
amended (MPRDA) (DMR reference number: NW 30/5/1/2/2/10178MR). Ikwezi proposes to
mine iron ore, phosphate, aggregate, sand, titanium and vanadium ore on the Farms
Morewage 921 JQ, Haakdoornfontin 12 JQ and Varkfontein 13 JQ within the Magisterial
District of Rustenburg, North West Province.
An environmental authorisation is required for listed activities triggered in terms of Chapter 6
of Government Notice (GN) No. R.326 as amended in Government Gazette No. 40772 (7 April 2017)
of the National Environmental Management Act (Act No.107 of 1998) (NEMA). This scoping report
is compiled in support of the above-mentioned environmental authorisation and will be
submitted to the relevant competent authorities.
Envirostep (Pty) Ltd (Envirostep) has been appointed by Ikwezi as the independent
Environmental Assessment Practitioner (EAP) to conduct the Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA) for the proposed mining project, as well as the required Public
Participation Process (PPP).
This scoping report forms part of the EIA process and aims to identify environmental issues
and concerns that require further investigation as well as to determine feasible alternatives.
The identified environmental issues and project alternatives are then used to determine the
terms of references for the specialist studies to be undertaken during the EIA Phase. During
the Scoping Phase, all persons interested or affected by the Project are informed of the
proposed activities and are provided with the opportunity to provide their input in terms of
issues and concerns that they may have. Potential positive and negative impacts that the
proposed Project may have on the environment have been identified and discussed in this
report. This scoping report will address the requirements for NEMA and the MPRDA. The
objectives of this scoping report are as follows:
 Identify the policies and legislation that are relevant to the activity;
 To consider alternatives to the Project in terms of infrastructure and activities;
 Provide Interested & Affected Parties (IAPs) and stakeholders with the opportunity to
contribute to the Project and ensuring that their issues that have been raised are
recorded and considered in Project planning;
 Provide a baseline description of the receiving environment;
 Highlight potential impacts that should be investigated further during the EIA Phase;
 Develop a study plan for the EIA phase; and
 To allow the authorities to comment and raise issues of concern regarding the
Project.

Certain assumptions, limitations, and uncertainties are associated with the Scoping Phase.
This report is based on information that is currently available and, as a result, the following
limitations and assumptions are applicable:
 The report is based on project information provided by the client.
 No specialist studies have been completed for the scoping phase of this application.
Descriptions of the natural and social environments are based on limited desktop
assessments and available literature.
 The levels of confidence for the impact assessment (Section 11.2) are considered
low until detailed specialist studies are conducted in the EIA phase.
 Information reported herein may be based on the interpretation of public domain data
collected by EAP and/or information supplied by the applicant and/or its other
advisors and associates. The data has been accepted in good faith as being accurate
and valid.