Extracts and Comments | Discussions
Extracts from:
Swaziland Greenstone Quarry
Environmental Impact Assessment and Comprehensive Mitigation Plan
8.2. Summary of potentially significant impacts.
The table below summarises the potentially significant impacts that were identified during the EIA report. To conform to the EIA report for easy reference, the impacts have been divided into the different phases of the quarry.
| Impact | Negative impact Mitigation | Positive impact | |
| Yes | No | ||
| Access route | |||
| Impact on fauna and flora due to widening of access road in National Reserve | * | ||
| Impact on amphibians & reptiles crossing the access road | * | ||
| Erosion of access road surface | * | ||
| Impact on Mr Siwela's homestead due to noise and dust | * | ||
| Quarry site - Construction phase | |||
| Potential hydrocarbon pollution of the soil | * | ||
| Potential loss of soil fertility due to compaction | * | ||
| Potential increase in silt load in runoff water from stockpile area | * | ||
| Potential loss of vegetation due to clearing of stockpile area | * | ||
| Potential loss of breeding habitat of fauna of conservation priority on bulk sampling area | * | ||
| Potential loss of fauna habitat due to fires | * | ||
| Potential for feeding or trapping fauna on lease area | * | ||
| Potential for high SiO2 dust levels from drilling | * | ||
| Potential for high noise levels from drilling (workers) | * | ||
| Potential for high noise levels from drilling (fauna) | * | ||
| Quarry site - Operational phase | |||
| Potential reduction in green chert value during quarrying | * | ||
| Potential impact on topography due to the height of the product stockpile | * | ||
| Potential increase in size of gully erosion on lease area | * | ||
| Potential loss of flora species diversity due to veldt fires | * | ||
| Potential for feeding or trapping fauna on lease area | * | ||
| Potential loss of fauna habitat due to fires | * | ||
| Potential for increased silt load in runoff water from quarrying area | * | ||
| Potential impact on fauna during the breeding season | * | ||
| Provision of employment | * | ||
| Impact on Mr Siwela's homestead due to noise and dust | * | ||
| Quarry site - Decomissioning phase | |||
| Impact due to removal of infrastructure and product stockpile | * | ||
| Potential loss of fauna habitat due to veldt fires | * | ||
| Potential for feeding or trapping fauna on lease area | * | ||
| A potential exists of the formation of sheet erosion over the rehabilitated stockpiling and loading area | * | ||
| Impact due to decrease in work force | * | ||