Mining

PIET MARAIS A recent public meeting in Nolukhanyo revealed strong community opposition to a proposed mining application on the historic Bathurst Commonage. Over one hundred Bathurst residents from Nolukhanyo and the village gathered at…

PIET MARAIS Scarcely a year after the Bathurst Commonage Management Committee (BCMC) was formed as a milestone of collaboration, they are met with their first major challenge: a move to establish a quarry about the size of 10 football…

Located between Marievale military base and Nigel is an old gold mine, Vlakfontein, where informal miners extract gold from the mine dump. “The gold found at this old mine is very easy to extract and in a good month one can make R10,000…