The following is required to apply for a Mining Permit in South Africa as stipulated by the Department of Mineral Resources:
Details of the land or area – Mining Permit
Provide a plan as contemplated in Regulation 2(2) read with Regulation 2(3) of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA).
Financial and technical competence
Provide detailed documents proving that the applicant has the technical ability and financial resources that are readily available or how they will be provided for. This will enable the applicant to carry out the mining activities and to mitigate as well as rehabilitate environmental impacts.
Provide details of any mineral or minerals and the quantity thereof, which the applicant intends to remove and dispose of during mining operations.
Prescribed fee
An amount of R100 application fee is payable as specified in regulation 75(1) (d) of the MPRDA.
Copy of identity document
An individual applicant must attach a certified copy of the identity document.
A certified copy of the certificate issued by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC).
Copy of resolution if acting in a representative capacity
Environmental authorisation
All applicants are required to apply for the necessary environmental authorisation in terms of the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA), 2008 and the National Environmental Waste Management Act (NEWMA), 2008 in respect of listed activities that have been triggered by applications in terms of the MPRDA, 2002 as amended.
NOTE: NEMA PRICING R2 000
Department of Mineral Resources head office:
| Trevenna CampusBuilding 2 C
c/o Meintjies and Francis Baard Streets Sunnyside Pretora |
012 444 3000
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Regional offices:
| Gauteng
78 De Korte Street c/o De Korte and De Beer Braamfontein Johannesburg |
011 358 9700/9758 |
| Mpumalanga
Save Ways Crescent Centre c/o OR Tambo and Mandela Road Witbank |
013 653 0500 |
| Free State
9459 The Strip building 314 Stateway and Bok Streets Welkom |
057 391 1300 |
| Limpopo
Old Premier House 101 Dorp Street Polokwane |
015 287 4700 |
| KwaZulu-Natal
Durban Bay House 333 Anton Lembede Street Durban |
031 335 9600 |
| Eastern Cape
Pier 14 Shopping Centre 444 Govan Mbeki Avenue Port Elizabeth |
041 396 3900 |
| Satellite Office Eastern Cape (Mthatha)
PRD Building 96 Sutherland Road Mthatha |
047 532 4488 |
| Western Cape
Ascension House c/o Riebeeck and Lower Burg Streets Cape Town |
021 427 1000 |
| Northern Cape
Perm Building 65 Phakamile Street c/o Mabitja Street Kimberley |
053 807 1700 |
| Satellite Office Northern Cape (Springbok)
Hopley Centre c/o Van der Stel and Van Riebeeck Streets Springbok |
027 712 8160 |
| North-West
Vaal University of Technology Building c/o Corrie de Keck Klerksdorp 2570 |
018 487 4300 |
| Satellite Office North West (Rustenburg)
Propcor Building 254A Bayers Naude Street Rustenburg |
014 594 9240 |
