GAZETTE NOTICE NO. 8404

NOTICE is given that an application under section 17 of the Mining Act has been made by Messrs.Coast Quarries Limited, of P.O. Box 639-00600, Nairobi, Kenya for a special licence to prospect for gypsum over an area described in the schedule hereto and the said application has been accepted for consideratiod. By virtue of the above mentioned section of the Mining Act, the said area of land is therefore re-opened to prospecting and mining and by virtue of section 7 (1) (d) of the same Act, the said area of land is excluded from prospecting and or mining except, as regards any prospecting and mining rights granted in respect of the area or any part thereof before the date of this notice which are subsisting or any right of renewal thereof. - Any objection to the grant of the special licence may be made in writing and addressed to the commissioner of Mines and. Geology, P.O. Box 30009-00100, Nairobi, Kenya to reach him within thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this notice. SCHEDULE . An area of approximately 83 square kilometres situated in Tana River District of Coast Province, delineated on Garissa topo sheet Ref. No. SA-37-3 of, scale 1:250.000 and more particularly described as follows: Commencing at point "A" grid reference EK 1727; thence on a grid bearing of 360° for a distance of approximately 6.0 km. to point "B" grid reference EK 1733; thence on a grid bearing of 90° for a distance of approximately 110 km. to point "C" grid reference EK 3033; thence on a grid bearing of 360° for a distance of approximately 4 km. to point "D" grid reference EK 3037; thence on a grid bearing of 135° for a distance of approximately 6.0 km. to point "E" grid reference EK 3433; thence on a grid bearing of 238° for a distance of approximately 18.5 km. to point "F' grid reference EK 2427; thence on a grid bearing of 270° for a distance of approximately 7.0 km`to the point of commencement. Dateckthe 18th August, 2008. L K. BIWOTT, Commissioner of Mines and Geology.