South Africa: State Approves Tormin's Massive West Coast Mining Expansion

Government has given Australian-owned Tormin mine the go-ahead to vastly expand its current extraction of mineral sands on ten additional West Coast beaches and on an inland strip of old beach adjoining the existing mine near Lutzville.

It has also condoned illegal activities by the mine, for which its owner Mineral Sands Resources (MSR) was fined R1.25 million, and authorised it to continue them.

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