APP-001147: Proposed Exploration / Prospecting Programme for Dimension Stone (Marble) in the Exclusive Prospecting License (EPL) No. 7269, Karibib District, Erongo Region, west central Namibia
The ECC is required for exploration activities in the EPL 7269 leading to the preparation of a feasibility report will use techniques such as mapping, drilling, sampling and trenching, starting with the desktop studies, followed by regional and local field-based activities. The following is the detailed overview of the proposed activities: (i) Initial desktop exploration activities (review of existing information and all previous activities in order identify any potential target/s in the EPL Area); (ii) Regional reconnaissance field-based activities such as regional mapping and sampling to identify and verify potential targeted areas based on the recommendations of the desktop work undertaken under (i) above; (iii) Initial local field-based activities such as widely spaced mapping, sampling, surveying and possible trenching and drilling in order to determine the viability of any delineated local target, and; (iv) Detailed local field-based activities such very detailed mapping, trenching, bulk sampling, surveying and detailed drilling in order to determine the feasibility of any delineated local target. If the above exploration activities lead to positive results, the exploration data collected will then be put together into a prefeasibility report and if the prefeasibility result proves positive then a detailed feasibility study supported by site-specific extensive drilling, bulk sampling and test mining and processing will be undertaken on the discovered mineralised locality. A positive feasibility study will be required in order to support the application for a Mining License (ML) together with a new site-specific Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Management Plan (EMP) with specialist studies such as flora, fauna, socioeconomic, water, traffic, dust and noise modelling and archaelogy being undertaken in order to support the application for the new ECC for mining and minerals process.
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