Question NW2528 to the Minister of Public Enterprises
22 October 2018 - NW2528
Van Dyk, Ms V to ask the Minister of Public Enterprises
With reference to the total amount that was paid to each (a) deep water mining, (b) tailings mineral resource reprocessing and (c) bedrock sweeping contractor by Alexkor in each of the past five financial years, what (i) is the total volume of gravels that were treated, (ii) carats of diamond were produced, (iii) is the total number of diamonds that were produced and (iv) is the total income that was generated?
Reply:
Based on information received from Alexkor SOC Limited.
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CONTRACTORS: |
2012/13 FY |
2013/14 FY |
2014/15 FY |
2015/16 FY |
2016/17 FY |
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(a) |
DEEP WATER MINING |
* |
* |
* |
* |
R294 647 577 |
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(b) |
TAILINGS MINERAL RESOURCE REPROCESSING |
** |
** |
** |
** |
R741 286 |
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(c) |
BEDROCK SWEEPING |
*** |
*** |
*** |
*** |
*** |
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DESCRIPTION: |
2012/13 FY |
2013/14 FY |
2014/15 FY |
2015/16 FY |
2016/17 FY |
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(i) |
VOLUME OF GRAVELS TREATED: m3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
769 200 |
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(ii) |
CARATS OF DIAMONDS PRODUCED: |
0 |
616.96 |
1 521.43 |
1 623.70 |
113 792.40 |
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(aa) TAILINGS MINERAL RESOURCE REPROCESSING |
0 |
616.96 |
1 521.43 |
1 623.70 |
1 745.40 |
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(bb) International Mining and Dredging SA (IMDSA) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
112 047.00 |
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(iii)
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NUMBER OF DIAMONDS PRODUCED: |
0 |
985 |
5 127 |
5 520 |
530 702 |
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(aa) TAILINGS MINERAL RESOURCE REPROCESSING |
0 |
985 |
5 127 |
5 520 |
2 127 |
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(bb) International Mining and Dredging SA (IMDSA) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
528 575 |
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(iv) |
TOTAL INCOME GENERATED |
- |
R2 086 007 |
R10 156 765 |
R7 444 997 |
R362 470 919 |
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Notes: |
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* |
DEEP WATER MINING |
: |
Operations only commenced during the 2016/17 FY |
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** |
TAILINGS MINERAL RESOURCE REPROCESSING |
: |
No information available prior to the 2016/17 FY; during 2016, the XRT Diamond Recovery technology was used to do exploration on some of the old tailing dumps. The exploration was stopped in 2017 as the operations were not viable. |
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BEDROCK SWEEPING |
: |
There has been no Bedrock Sweeping Contracts for the period under review. |