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By News 24
Jul 26, 2024

Mining causes irreversible damage to crucial Eswatini nature reserve

In February the king gave the company his blessing and congratulated it on getting a 25-year mining licence, although it has obtained no authorisation from the environmental authority.

The company claims it has only been "prospecting," but it has no environmental compliance certificate for this either.

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The sound of hydraulic rock breakers at work, hacking great chunks from the face of some of the oldest mountains in the world, can be heard echoing down the Mgwayiza Valley in Eswatini.

For over a year now, Michael Lee Enterprises (registered in Eswatini), a company with the same name as its Taiwanese owner, has been mining green chert from outcrops within Malolotja Nature Reserve.