The approval enables the company to construct the mine, all the required mine infrastructure and the associated 36km rail link to the existing rail network.
The environmental authorisation was given by the Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism.
The company will now receive its integrated water use licence and sign a contract with Transnet Freight Rail to proceed to finalise funding for project construction to commence.
The Waterberg region of South Africa has probable reserves of 744.8 million tons of coal on 35% of the tenements under its control.
The first stage of the mine development targets saleable coal production of 6 million tons per annum.
