Socio-economic impact assessment of the proposed cessation of pumping and associated closure of the underground workings of the ezulwini operations of Sibanye Gold, Gauteng Province

Type Working Paper
Title Socio-economic impact assessment of the proposed cessation of pumping and associated closure of the underground workings of the ezulwini operations of Sibanye Gold, Gauteng Province
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2017
URL http://www.jaws.co.za/uploads/PPDocs/Sibanye SEIA_27 March 2017_pump revision.pdf
Abstract
The socio-economic impact assessment forms part of the environmental authorisation
required for the proposed decommissioning of the underground workings of the Ezulwini
Mining Corporation (Pty) Ltd (Ezulwini Operations), a subsidiary of Sibanye Gold Limited,
situated in the West Rand District, 45 km southwest of Johannesburg in the Gauteng
Province. The decommissioning of Ezulwini mainly refers to the closure of the Cooke 4
underground shaft and only considers the implications of the termination at pumping the
water from Cooke 4 shaft and the resultant re-watering of the mine shaft. This study does not
include the socio-economic impacts of closure of the operations itself since this was dealt
with under the Section 52 process of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act
28 of 2002 (MPRDA, 2002).

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