The Proponent, Ya Otto Mining and Exploration (Pty) Ltd, require the renewed ECC No. 3877 with respect to the ongoing and proposed minerals exploration in the Exclusive Prospecting License (EPL) No. 5517, Khorixas District, Kunene Region, West Central Namibia. The Proponent intends continue with exploration activities covering desktop studies, followed by site-specific activities on targets that may be delineated and using exploration techniques / methods such as geophysical surveys, geological mapping, trenching, drilling, bulk sampling, and test mining. If the ongoing and proposed minerals exploration activities lead to positive results, the exploration data collected will be used to prepare a prefeasibility report and if the prefeasibility result proves positive, a detailed feasibility study supported by detailed site-specific drilling, bulk sampling, laboratory tests and test mining activities on the discovered mineralised locality will be undertaken. A positive feasibility study will be required to support the application for a Mining License (ML) together with a new ECC for mining and minerals process based on site-specific Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Management Plan (EMP) supported by site-specific specialist studies such as flora, fauna, socioeconomic, water, traffic, dust and noise modelling and archaeology.
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