The Voluntary Resettlement Policy, the Mining project Rehabilitation and Closure Policy and the Sustainable Mining Policy were introduced in 2016 and approved to support the revised Mining Act.
“For the Mining and resettlement policy, we have learned the hardest way. When we issue a tenement or license, section 41 of policy gives exclusive occupation rights to the tenement holder. We have found out that places where relocation and resettlement exercises failed, this cost us very dearly,” he said.
