Files could not be downloaded on EIA MET server (not found) - only EIA information was available. Proposed industrial minerals (salt) mining activities within 75992, 75993, 75994, 75995, 75996, 75997, 75998, 75999, 76000, and 76001, near Cape Cross Erongo Region The provision of the listed activities is as follows: MINING AND QUARRYING ACTIVITIES 3.1 The construction of facilities for any process or activities which require a license, right, or other forms of authorization, and the renewal of a license, right, or any other form of authorization in terms of Minerals (Prospecting and Mining Act), 1992. 3.2 Other forms of mining or extraction of natural resources whether regulated by law or not. 3.3 Resource extraction, manipulation, conservation, and related activities. o Development of salt crystallizing ponds. o Extraction of salt (rock salt) from crystallizers. WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT 8.1 The abstraction of ground or surface water for industrial or commercial purposes. 8.4 Construction of canals and channels including the diversion of the normal flow of water in a riverbed and water transfer schemes between water catchments and impoundments. o Brine extraction from the salt pan o Even though no new water source is created, managing and redirecting brine constitutes a controlled water abstraction/diversion within the site.