A brief look at SA’s coal-mining industry

Most coal production in South Africa - about 53% - is from opencast mines, with the balance being produced by bord-and-pillar (40%), stoping (4%) and longwall mining (3%). Coal mining operations are clustered in the country’s Mpumalanga...

A focus on safety

The Goedgevonden coal mine, in Mpumalanga province, has been designed with a focus on safety and that a significant safety challenge is the elimination of fatalities and critical incidents mining house Xstrata South Africa communications manager...

Commissioning according to planned schedule

The Goedgevonden coal mine, in Mpumalanga province, is being commissioned according to the planned schedule and is progressing well, says diversified mining company African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) Coal operations executive Peter Steenkamp.

Goedgevonden mine to supply Eskom’s Majuba coal-fired plant

The Goedgevonden colliery, the flagship operation of the joint-venture (JV) partnership between African Rainbow Minerals (Arm) Coal and Xstrata Coal, has signed a 17-year coal supply agreement with South African power utility Eskom. In terms of...

Goedgevonden coal mine is up and running

The Goedgevonden project has seen the development of a major new greenfield, opencut, thermal coal mine. The project is expected to produce an estimated 3,1-million tons of export thermal coal yearly and about 3,6-million tons yearly for domestic...

JV part of miner’s aggressive and ambitious strategy to grow coal assets

Diversified miner African Rainbow Minerals Coal (ARM Coal) joint venture (JV) with Xstrata Coal in the Goedgevonden coal project is part of ARM’s aggressive and ambitious strategy to grow its presence in the coal industry, says ARM Coal CE...

Richards Bay Coal Terminal expansion and coal line, KwaZulu-Natal

The planned expansion of the world’s single largest coal terminal, Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT), will increase its throughput capacity from 72-million t a year to 91-million t a year.