GAZETTE NOTICE NO. 2022

NOTICE is given that an application under Section 17 of the Mining Act has been made by Messrs Bakall Company Limited of P.O. Box 132, Bura Tana, 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 consideration. 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, G.P.O, Nairobi, Kenya to reach him within thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this notice. SCHEDULE An area of approximately 25.5 km2 situated in Tana North District of Coast Province, delineated on Garissa topo sheet No. SA- 37-3 of scale 1: 250,000 and more particularly described as follows: Commencing at point “A” grid reference EK 7110; thence on a grid bearing of 1220 for a distance of approximately 9.5 Km to point “B” grid reference EK 7905; thence on a grid bearing of 2700 for a distance of approximately 7.0 Km to point “C” grid reference EK 7205; thence on a grid bearing of 3220 for a distance of approximately 6.4 Km to the point “D” grid reference EK 6810; thence on a grid bearing of 900 for a distance of approximately 3.0 Km to the point of commencement. Dated the 1st February, 2012. M. N. MASIBO, MR/8844619 Acting Commissioner of Mines and Geology.