https://www.miningweekly.com

Mining starts at Edenville’s Rukwa project

30th March 2017

By: Megan van Wyngaardt

Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

     

Font size: - +

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Mining has started at Aim-listed Edenville Energy’s Rukwa coal-to-power project, with the crushing of several hundred tonnes of coal already completed.

The miner on Thursday said the majority of the coal produced so far had been crushed using a temporary crushing facility Edenville refurbished alongside its partner Upendo.

The resulting product has subsequently been sold to a customer with the intention of providing larger-scale, long-term sales once the main wash plant facility is operational.

"I am extremely pleased that, at this early stage in its development, the project has been able to produce a crushed coal product. With the wash plant approaching a point where it can be shipped to site by mid-April, I am confident that we will move towards being able to provide to the market a fully processed coal product in the second quarter,” said CEO Rufus Short.

Meanwhile, Edenville has engaged a specialist logistics company to oversee the containerisation of the wash plant, its shipping to Tanzania from the UK and subsequent road transport to site.

Further earthworks are also being initiated for the plant site and to provide additional access roads for coal trucks. The increase in equipment on site will also allow a run-of-mine coal stockpile to be established to provide feed for the wash plant and crusher when installed on site.

Edenville eventually plans to build a 120 MW to 135 MW power plant at Rukwa.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

Comments

Latest News

The integration of Alamos' Island Gold mine (pictured) and Argonaut's Magino mine will create synergies of $515-million.
Alamos buys rival Argonaut
27th March 2024 By: Mariaan Webb

Showroom

Hanna Instruments Image
Hanna Instruments (Pty) Ltd

We supply customers with practical affordable solutions for their testing needs. Our products include benchtop, portable, in-line process control...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Stewarts & Lloyds
Stewarts & Lloyds

Stewarts & Lloyds today supplies steel and tube, pipe and fittings, valves, pumps, irrigation, fencing, profiling and roofing products. The cash...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Hyphen, Eva mine, ferrochrome price make headlines
Hyphen, Eva mine, ferrochrome price make headlines
27th March 2024
Resources Watch
Resources Watch
27th March 2024

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







sq:0.154 0.188s - 90pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now