By John Yeld for GroundUp • 1 April 2020 Environment minister rejects most of the appeals against Tormin expansion plans Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has dismissed most of the appeals against last year’s approval of vastly expanded beach mining operations

By John Yeld for GroundUp • 3 December 2019 Controversial Australian company applies for further prospecting rights The future of one of South Africa’s most important biodiversity areas – the Olifants River estuary on the West Coast near Lutzville –

By John Yeld for GroundUp • 15 July 2019 Environmental and activist groups appeal decision 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