We Innovate.
Situated in the diamond-rich coronary heart of South Africa, we are a diamond mining employer that is constructing a sustainable future – for our people, for our communities, for our environment. We use modern science at operations in Kimberley, Northern Cape, to execute a complete rehabilitation programme. We mine the tailings dumps that resulted from preceding mining activities, cautiously backfilling the historical mine pits, for that reason rehabilitating the environmental injury brought on to the pits and the areas surrounding them over the previous one hundred forty years of mining in Kimberley. We mine some of the greatest first-rate Kimberley SA diamonds that have the special attribute of being sustainably environmentally friendly.

We Provide.
Our human beings are our African heartbeat. Therefore we grant a experience of lifelong private improvement and boom so that every worker can stay to their full potential. We furnish a work surroundings the place our personnel are secure and healthy. So that our personnel can prosper and supply for their families.

We Care.
We consider in giving back. We consider in investing in the communities the place we function to enhance the first-class of lifestyles via our Corporate Social Investment programmes. We trust in caring for our surroundings and main environmental initiatives to depart a legacy for generations to come.

Ekapa Mines sponsors tracksuits for Yorkshire Cricket Club, igniting a new generation of success.
With a honest dedication to helping the nearby neighborhood and advertising sports’ growth, Ekapa Mines took the initiative to aid the Yorkshire Cricket Club, in addition solidifying the connection between neighborhood companies and the community.

Ekapa Mines, a outstanding title in the mining industry, generously backed tracksuits for 5 of the Yorkshire Cricket Club’s teams, together with the women’s team.

Last Saturday marked a widespread match for the Yorkshire Cricket Club when Ekapa Mines, a outstanding title in the mining industry, generously subsidized tracksuits for 5 of the club’s teams, which includes the women’s team. The significance of this gesture was once now not not noted with the aid of these present, signifying a critical second in the club’s history.

Khonjiwe Mjacu, representing Ekapa Mines, performed a fundamental position in bringing this sponsorship to fruition. With a honest dedication to helping the neighborhood neighborhood and merchandising sports’ growth, Ekapa Mines took the initiative to aid the Yorkshire Cricket Club, in addition solidifying the connection between nearby groups and the community.

The Yorkshire Cricket Club skilled a second of tremendous satisfaction and gratitude throughout the tracksuit handover. Thabo Maupa, the committed teach of the ladies’ team, frequent the tracksuits on behalf of the players, symbolising the team spirit and willpower that outline the club’s spirit. The smiles and camaraderie shared on that day vividly expressed the club’s grasp for the sponsorship. While the picture taking pictures the tracksuit handover highlighted the enthusiasm and optimism surrounding the partnership, it didn’t encompass an indispensable figure: Mbulelo Bosman, the Chairman of the Yorkshire Cricket Club.

Mr. Bosman did, however, take the probability to convey, via the DFA, his deepest understanding to Khonjiwe of Ekapa, recognising the exceptional cost that this sponsorship brings to the club. He emphasised that Ekapa Mines’ help goes past clothing; it is an funding in the future of young, gifted cricketers.

This sponsorship holds specific value for the Yorkshire Cricket Club, marking their 2d garb sponsorship given that De Beers subsidized the membership in 2000. Ekapa Mines’ beneficiant act now not solely underscores their dedication to the neighborhood community however additionally displays their trust in the club’s plausible to thrive and make an have an effect on in the cricketing world.

Now well-equipped and motivated, thanks to the generosity of Ekapa Mines, the Yorkshire Cricket Club appears ahead to accomplishing fantastic success on the field.

With their new tracksuits and a robust experience of unity, the membership is poised to foster the spirit of cricket in Yorkshire.

Loving Hearts Soup Kitchen
Soccer Sponsorship
Ekapa’s personnel care for their communities and are concerned in a wide variety of initiatives to make a distinction in their non-public capability as well. One instance is the Loving Hearts Soup Kitchen that is managed by means of one of our employees.

This registered non-profit organization strives to alleviate poverty amongst the aged and kids with HIV/Aids, disabilities and the underneath privileged in the Roodepan area. It focuses on extra than simply imparting meals to the communities – it additionally focuses on growing wholesome enjoyment for the youth. To aid our employees’ efforts and extend the affect even further, Ekapa donated much-needed soccer equipment.

From soccer kits to balls, nets, cones, hurdles and water bottles, the enterprise had the whole lot they wished to preserve the children busy in a healthful and positive manner. This contributed now not solely to their bodily wants however additionally to their social and non-public development. Creating more desirable communities together.

Ekapa Safety Play Blanket Drive
Winters in the Northern Cape can be bloodless and harsh and it is essential for us as a organization that inclined human beings in our communities have safety in opposition to the cold. With this in mind, we kicked off a undertaking to donate blankets to Grade R novices in want in our surrounding areas. With the assist of the Department of Education, college principals and ECD teachers, we have been capable to decide the range of learners. In whole we donated 1010 blankets to 12 colleges unfold out thru our areas of operation. With wintry weather lasting quite a few months, we sense privileged to have been capable to supply our communities with some blankets to assist maintain them heat at some point of the bloodless wintry weather nights.

Investing In Our Youth in Partnership with Sol Plaatje University
The training of our childhood for a brilliant future is a key center of attention region for us as a company.

Ekapa is proudly working hand in hand with Sol Plaatje University (SPU) in teaching the biologists of the future.

Two postgraduate college students from SPU are kicking off their lookup initiatives with help and education from each SPU and the Ekapa Environmental branch in 2021. The realistic part of these initiatives will be facilitated on Rooifontein and the mining vicinity for the subsequent year. The students, all in extraordinary fields of science, will make a contribution to understanding and lookup that can assist with the rehabilitation of diamond mines in future.

Ekapa is a proud supporter of training in partnership with Sol Plaatje University

Bee Project
Project Start Date: 2016
PURPOSE: BIODIVERSITY / ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY/CONSERVATION / AWARENESS

The Ekapa Bee undertaking exemplifies an modern method to environmental sustainability. By setting up beehives at Ekapa, the undertaking pursuits to guide nearby biodiversity. Bees, vital pollinators, beautify the ecosystem surrounding the mine, fostering the boom of flowers and offering habitat for more than a few species.

This initiative contributes to the well-being of the surroundings and brings financial benefits. Increased biodiversity can enhance soil fitness and water quality, positively impacting the mine’s operations. Additionally, the presence of bees enhances crop yields in close by agricultural areas, promotion a harmonious relationship between the mining enterprise and nearby communities.

The bee venture at Ekapa showcases the interconnectedness of industries and ecosystems, emphasizing the superb ripple consequences that environmentally mindful initiatives can have on each nature and business.

Ekapa Bee Project aligns with a broader dedication to environmental responsibility, biodiversity, conservation and sustainable improvement developing fine have an effect on on each ecosystem and surrounding communities

Active Bee Hives: 6
In 2021 – “Trees for Bees” used to be adopted at Ekapa. Lavender vegetation had been purchased in bulk and planted in strategic vicinity to help our Ekapa Bees

Ekapa’s Pure Raw Honey is harvested and donated to employees/organisations as a token of appreciation.

Vulture Culture with a difference
The White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus) is an old-world Vulture in the household Accipitridae.

It is the most frequent vulture species in the continent of Africa. The White-backed Vulture is a usual vulture with solely down feathers on the head and neck, expansive wings, and quick tail feathers. Like many African Vultures, this species has suffered fast decline. When first assessed in 1988, it used to be categorized as a Least situation species with an tremendous vary population. It used to be reassessed from Least difficulty to Near Threatened species in the 2007 IUCN Red List after the beginnings of a fundamental decline had been noticed. In 2012, greater data about populace traits was once available, and the estimate cautioned that the vulture populace would reduce by using 50 p.c inside the subsequent three generations. The Vultures had been then brought to the Endangered species list. The White-backed Vulture was once bumped up to Critically Endangered in 2015. The decline in numbers has reached a magnitude that places the vultures at an intense hazard of extinction.

Dronfield Game Farm and Nature Reserve in the Northern Cape is acknowledged for its White-backed Vulture Population, which Angus Anthony has actively monitored over the final 30 years.

This venture includes the monitoring and breeding success of this species so shut to extinction. Big threats to this species are poisoning and powerlines.
Ekapa Minerals has been worried with the ringing adventures as soon as a yr at Dronfield considering that 2019. This takes place every year when conservationists and different fascinated events from South Africa, England and France collect to ring and measure the younger vultures from that particular breeding season.

This is a captivating process. First, the chook have to be eliminated from the pinnacle of the widespread Camelthorn tree. This entails a lot of ability and manoeuvring. The chook should then be safely taken down to the ringing station, the place it need to be saved nevertheless to be measured, weighed and ringed. Some of them are fortunate adequate to be tagged and tracked as well. No ringing weekend goes barring incident. It should be a fowl bite, claw injury, or a vomit rocker from a chook attempting to scare you away. But this is all in exact spirit. After all the facts have been processed and captured, the hen is positioned again into the nest. The ringing and monitoring information assists with the course the birds tour as properly as the age of the birds over the years. In 2023, extra than 50 younger birds will be ringed, and facts will be captured. Angus video display units greater than a hundred nests on Dronfield alone. Breeding success is additionally measured. When nesting season starts, Angus exams all the marked timber and different bushes for new and historic nesting activities. This all takes location in August of every year. Every October, the crew returns to screen the breeding success of the lively nest and then the ringing and records taking pictures starts.

Ekapa is proud to be phase of such a project.

Lesser Flamingo Conservation Project
With the Lessor Flamingo on the near-threatened list, Ekapa dedicated to being a founding member of the Save the Flamingo Association (StFA) and used to be the major sponsor, designer, and constructor of the internationally well-known Flamingo Breeding Island inside Kamfers Dam close to Kimberley in the Northern Cape of South Africa.
The StFA used to be set up to make contributions to the Lesser Flamingo’s international conservation via advocacy, monitoring, and help with conservation measures at Kamfers Dam.
In 2006 an synthetic breeding island used to be constructed in Kamfers Dam with the aid of Ekapa, taking part with the Northern Cape Department of Environment and Nature Conservation. The breeding floor pursuits to reverse the decline in numbers by using supplying a secure haven free from poaching and human disturbance.
Large numbers of Lesser Flamingos are attracted to the wetland to feed and increase their chicks due to the excessive attention of blue-green algae in the dam’s water. The flamingo breeding island efficaciously produced about eighty zero chicks over the following 4 years. Kamfers Dam grew to be one of solely 4 breeding websites for the Lesser Flamingo in Africa. The others being Sua Pan in Botswana, Etosha Pan in Namibia, and Lake Natron in Tanzania. Ekapa was once awarded the Nedbank Green Mine award in 2007 for our efforts in the conservation of these birds.

Since the breeding floor used to be established, many challenges had to be overcome, such as the extreme drought and unstable water grant in 2019, ensuing in about 2000 chicks being deserted by using their parents. Ekapa, in cooperation with a range of our companions and the community, joined forces to rescue the chicks. Ekapa flew the chicks to a number rehabilitation centres throughout South Africa and has ever in view that been concerned in the rehabilitation and launch of chicks again to Kamfers Dam. Ekapa, in partnership with Birdlife South Africa, continues to display the water exceptional and flamingo numbers of the website generally and document on the availability of food. Kamfers Dam helps the greatest everlasting populace of Lesser Flamingos in southern Africa that at instances reaches up to an estimated 60 zero birds. We continue to be dedicated to conserving these majestic animals for generations to come and will proceed to locate approaches to make sure the Lesser Flamingo populace at Kamfers Dam can prosper.

Conserving The Secretary Bird: The Story Of ‘Little Ekapa’
Ekapa, the little secretary bird, hatched on Rooifontein which types section of the mine’s property in September 2020. The nest was once monitored by way of the environmental branch for about 4 weeks. Birdlife South Africa used to be invited to in shape the secretary fowl with a monitoring device. The machine used to be geared up on 22 October 2020 when the hen was once between 8-9 weeks old. Little Ekapa began shifting to and from the nest every day on nine November. On eleven January 2021, the sign used to be placed close to Potfontein, a little city located between Strydenburg and Phillipstown. Ekapa’s moves are monitored weekly with the aid of Birdlife South Africa and the mine. Valuable statistics is being gathered that can be utilised in the conservation of this species. We are proud to be section of this ground-breaking initiative in conserving the secretary bird.

Bird Life South Africa Science And Innovation Programme
We trust in caring for our surroundings and being worried in environmental initiatives so that we can depart a legacy for generations to come.

Ekapa has been aiding BirdLife South Africa’s Science and Innovation Programme considering 2017. The predominant center of attention is on the conservation of threatened birds and their habitats in the Northern Cape.

Ekapa and Bird Life South Africa Partnership
Ekapa and BirdLife South Africa blended efforts to preserve a large variety of landscapes and biodiversity in South Africa. Below you can discover a quick description of some of these projects.

Rooifontein
BirdLife South Africa helps the administration of the lovely Rooifontein property placed close to Kimberley in the Northern Cape. This work consists of monitoring tasks and the improvement and implementation of a administration plan.

BirdLife South Africa and different birders do normal fowl monitoring (using the cellular app BirdLasser), and thru the use of digicam traps, mammals and different species are monitored. The administration graph will set out targets and things to do which will information conservation things to do on the property. Other advert hoc tasks consist of monitoring the growth of rehabilitation tasks the usage of far off sensing.

Citizen Science
BirdLife South Africa is a assignment accomplice to southern Africa’s greatest hen citizen science initiative, particularly the South Africa Bird Atlas Project 2.

This task collects treasured chook distribution information that can be used in more than a few ways, such as in tutorial research or to layout conservation initiatives. Also partnering with the cellular utility BirdLasser, and greater especially the Threatened Species Cause with which BirdLife South Africa is affiliated, heaps of factor areas of threatened hen species are accrued each month. This resultant dataset helps direct conservation efforts and capacitates similarly work performed by way of a range of initiatives inside BirdLife South Africa.

Conservation Planning in
South Africa
Accurate fowl records tells you if conservation efforts are effective, and if not, choices can be taken to adapt conservation strategies.

South Africa has a well-developed spatial planning sector, aiming to sketch and delineate land use in South Africa. The spatial planning challenge targets to furnish correct spatial information to this region which can then feed into a range of conservation planning equipment such as Critical Biodiversity Areas. These maps structure the groundwork for regional planning, and avian spatial facts ought to be blanketed in these datasets. By combining species distribution fashions and information from the Southern African Bird Atlas project, fine-scale maps comply with the requirements as set in law and tenet documents. The layers are additionally submitted to the National Web-based Site Screening Tool, making a precious contribution to the environmental affect evaluation method in South Africa.

Species Projects
Ekapa and BirdLife South Africa partnered in countless species-specific projects. The White-backed Vulture study’s motive is to examine the motion behaviour and survival costs of newly fledged juveniles uncovered to excessive lead tiers to these with minimal publicity to lead. It is hoped that this work will supply precious perception into the influence of lead on White-backed Vultures. Recently, monitoring gadgets have been outfitted to vultures at Dronfield Nature Reserve, close to Kimberley in the Northern Cape.

As phase of the Secretary chook monitoring project, a younger Secretary hen was once geared up with a monitoring system on Rooifontein, a farm close to Kimberley in the Northern Cape, in October 2020. The monitoring of this chicken is phase of a extra full-size assignment to apprehend Secretary birds’ motion and habitat necessities better. The statistics already amassed helped increase the hazard repute of this species to Endangered.

Production And Processes
Ekapa’s is located in Kimberley in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, close to the Free State border. The biggest component (71%) of the Ekapa’s homes fall inside the Northern Cape, and with the Northern Cape/Free State border strolling thru the jap area of the mining property, a component (29%) of the property falls in the Free State province.

Ekapa Mining is the one hundred percent proprietor of Ekapa Resources and Ekapa Minerals. Ekapa Resources is the owner of the underground mining rights and Ekapa Minerals is the proprietor of the floor mining rights. It is operated as one entity regarded as Ekapa and consists of 5 commercial enterprise units, specifically Joint Shaft, Wesselton, Combined Treatment Plant (CTP), Surface Mining and Services and Support.

Ekapa is each a tailings mineral aid reclamation operation and an underground mining operation with two operational shafts.

Tailings Mineral Resource Reclamation
The tailings mineral assets are positioned on a variety of farms in its place of operation. The many and different dumps (tailings mineral resources) in the Kimberley location are the remnants of extra than a century of mining of the Kimberley (The Big Hole), De Beers, Dutoitspan, Bultfontein, and Wesselton mines. The tailings aid fabric is ripped and dozed into stockpiles for loading onto haul trucks. The cloth is loaded onto vans with front-end loaders and excavators and hauled to the a number tipping areas. It is both tipped at once into the Treatment Plant for processing or stockpiled for later treatment. Large editions take place in the grade and the bodily homes of dumps that have an effect on the metallurgical process. This necessitates the mixing of ore from quite a number sources prior to the processing and healing of diamonds. The tailings mineral useful resource reclamation is a complete rehabilitation programme of re-mining the ancient tailings dumps and then cautiously depositing the processed solids lower back into the mined-out De Beers pit therefore rehabilitating the environmental injury prompted to the pit and the surrounding areas over the previous a hundred and forty years of mining in Kimberley. An unique attribute of Kimberley SA Diamonds is that they are sustainably environmentally friendly.

Underground Mining
Operations
Ekapa utilises dry mining in its underground mining operations. The mines are ventilated by using skill of force, utilising an exhaust & force-exhaust system. Booster followers are located underground – two at Wesselton (660 level), two at Bultfontein (580 level) and two at Du Toitspan (580 level). Dust is managed by using potential of dirt filtration plants, exhaust followers ventilating into return airways, and with the aid of treating the roadways with a dirt allying agent. Dust is extracted from foremost crushers located underground at Joint Shaft (785 and 825 levels) and Wesselton (1020 level) from where ore is transferred to ore passes to be hoisted to surface. The mining approach varies for every of the mining blocks that are mined. The majority of the strategies concerned huge caving kind methods. The blocks are created by using creating get entry to and infrastructure to get entry to the ore. The cave is initiated by way of developing a void, via lengthy gap drilling and blasting. This void is always accelerated in order to create the cave. From the cave the ore is transported to the floor dealing with process, both by way of an LHD, scraper winch, teach and dump truck and/or a aggregate of these. Once the floor is in the floor dealing with system, it is overwhelmed and then transported to the shaft by means of a aggregate of conveyor belts. Ore is hoisted from the underground operations to the discharge bin located in the headgear, which feeds a sequence of belts and creates a stockpile on surface, from the place it is loaded and hauled to the Combined Treatment Plant (CTP).

Get full information and opportunities here