The mining division specialises in surface contract mining.
Our approach is to ensure lasting benefits while minimising our impact on the natural environment.
Our primary focus is ensuring a safe and healthy workplace. Training is an integral part of this focus.
Basil Read is actively involved with South African transformation and broad-based black economic empowerment.
Our expanding footprint has presented challenges in managing our human resources
We strive to protect and sustain the environment, and to manage our impacts effectively, when these are unavoidable.
Basil Read strives to engage with meaningful initiatives that contribute to the transformation of people and communities.
Our reports scope, assurance process and standards used
After over four years of construction, the highlight of 2016 was the landing of the first jet-propelled aircraft, a Bombardier Challenger 300, on the island on 10 April 2016, with five UK regulatory officials on board for the first aerodrome audit. The audit was highly successful and the aerodrome certificate was issued by Air Safety Support International on 10 May 2016.
Despite the delay in commercial flights, charter flights are able to land and Basil Read operates the airport daily as a fully functional international facility, making a real difference to the lives of residents. This has allowed a number of medical air evacuations that were previously not possible. Basil Read has a 10-year contract to operate the airport.
We expect all additional works to be completed by early 2018, marking the end of the very successful six-and-a-half-year construction part of the project. The contract to operate the airport will run until 2026. Additional construction opportunities are under discussion.