The High Court granted an interdict this week ?? which keeps Ottilie Ndimulunde from carrying out mining operations and building a road or anything else on her mine mines in the Khorixas area. The interdict will be valid pending the outcome of a review application to the Environment Commissioner against the Environmental Clearance Certificate (ECC) issued. The Doro ! Nawas Conservation Area, Ûibasen Twyfelfontein Conservation Area, the ≠Aodaman Traditional Authority and the company Ultimate Safaris have brought an urgent application against Ndimulunde. This is the latest in a series of urgent applications in the High Court regarding the issue of mining operations in the area. The ECC has enabled the commencement of mining operations in an area where existing and future development of infrastructure for tourism activities is believed to have taken place. This area is also a well-known tourist attraction and habitat for the black rhino. Judge Esi Schimming-Chase ordered that neither Ndimulunde nor any person acting in accordance with her instructions may use heavy machinery in any way to build a new road or anything else. This applies to the area of the D2612 in a westerly direction to Ndimulunde's mines. Schimming-Chase also ordered in her ruling that the environment commissioner or someone in the Ministry of the Environment, Forestry and Tourism, must make the decision on whether or not to cancel the ECC before October 24 this year and communicate it. The ECC was granted to Ndimulunde in 2023 in connection with the intended mining operations of her mine clays. She was further ordered to pay the costs of the application.