“Jethro Tull rocks for the Wild Coast” was the title of a concert tour in November by Ian Anderson, head of Jethro Tull, and his band. In cooperation with the Wilderness Foundation, NatureLife-International and the Endangered Wildlife Trust they played three concerts in South Africa. Read More

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November 30, 2007 Edition 1

Tony Carnie

THE future of the controversial Xolobeni sand dune mining venture on the Wild Coast has been cast into doubt, with a mining media report that the project had been put on hold.

Martin Creamer’s Mining Weekly reported in its online edition this week that the Australian company, Mineral Commodities, MRC, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Transworld Energy and Minerals, were understood to be planning a meeting soon to review whether to proceed with the mining rights application.

Neither Mark Caruso, Managing Director of MRC, nor John Barnes, General Manager of Transworld Energy and Minerals, could be reached for comment yesterday. [Read more…]

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