N’Komati Anthracite Mine - Integrated Environmental Authorisation for Open Cast Mining Areas and Expansion of the Madadeni Underground Area and EMPr Consolidation & Amendment

The proposed activities are required in order to ensure that N’Komati Anthracite Mine can access the required volumes of anthracite at their existing Mangweni and Madadeni operations. This will be achieved by accessing the available anthracite resource in a more effective manner in order to be able to keep the Mine open. The complex geology at the existing operations poses a challenge to extract volumes and thus the establishment of proposed opencast mining areas and expansion of the Madadeni underground area is required to supplement the RoM from the existing operations.
Opencast Mining Areas
Five (5) opencast mining areas are proposed and form part of this application. These areas are as follows:
• Block L larger area
• Madadeni Opencast Mining Area
o North North East
o North East East
• Mangweni Mining Area
o Mangweni Open cast
o Mangweni South
Underground Mining Areas
Expansion of the previously approved Madadeni Underground Area
Supporting Infrastructure
• Overburden Stockpiles and Discard Dump
• Berms
• Haul Roads