Due to continuous mining expansion, the Dingleton town was located very close to the mining area and was consequently increasingly exposed to a number of environmental and other hazards related to mining activities.

 It was then suggested that complaints by residents regarding the deteriorating infrastructure and the increasing proximity of mining activities led to an undertaking by Kumba Iron Ore to relocate the community to the nearby town of Kathu as part of the ‘mine’s environmental management and social development plans’ MMQS Consultancy was appointed to assist Kumba Iron Ore with the relocation program as part of the program MMQS was involoved in the construction of a new private shopping centre as part of a larger Dingleton Resettlement Project.