Prospecting mining company Buchuberg Resources (Pty) Ltd and Cape Zircon (Pty) Ltd hosted their most recent public meeting for the community of Lambert’s Bay in relation to its application to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) to prospect for minerals including diamonds, gold ore, heavy minerals, rare earths and mineral sands. In March this year, Buchuberg Resources (Pty) Ltd lodged two applications for onshore prospecting rights and environmental authorisation, and in April Cape Zircon (Pty) Ltd also lodged two applications. Opposition in the public meetings has been strong in Lambert’s Bay and Ebenhazer. Small-scale Lambert’s Bay fisher, Rosey Shoshola, said: “This mining is going to badly affect our fish stocks and our fish will decline. What will we eat then? How will we send our children to school if our livelihoods will be stolen from us like this? We say no to mining.”