Coal processing body optimistic about domestic industry’s future

Yearly coal exports through the Richards Bay coal terminals over the past few years have surpassed all other minerals in foreign-currency-earnings terms, and have provided an economic model which should sustain the coal-mining and -processing...

Minas Moatize coal expansion project, Mozambique

Beacon Hill Resources expects to ship its first coking coal from the Minas Moatize mine by the middle of the year.

Beacon Hill says first coking coal shipment planned for mid-year

Aim-listed Beacon Hill expects to ship its first coking coal from the Minas Moatize mine, in Mozambique, by the middle of the year, chairperson Justin Lewis reported on Tuesday. The company started mining coking coal at the Upper Chipanga Pit...

Benga coal project, Mozambique

Rio Tinto has put the first coal through Benga's new coal preparation and handling plant, ahead of its first coal shipment.

Rio Tinto iron-ore production climbs to record

Diversified resources giant Rio Tinto increased its iron-ore production to a record in the fourth quarter, as the miner pushed ahead with its expansion programme in Western Australia. The Pilbara mines produced a record 62-million tons in the...

Minas Moatize coal project, Mozambique

Mauritius-registered BHR Coal has entered into an offtake agreement with Global Minerals & Metals.

Move away from nationalisation to serve as incentive for investors

In the Mozambique government’s bid to attract foreign investment and multiply about $3-billion that has been injected into the country over the past five years, it is steering away from nationalising its minerals, of which coal is a significant...

Beacon Hill, Global Coke revise offtake deal for Minas Moatize coal

Mauritius-registered BHR Coal (BHRC), a subsidiary of LSE-listed Beacon Hill Resources, has entered into a revised offtake agreement with Global Minerals & Metal (GMM). Beacon Hill’s Minas Moatize mine in Mozambique would supply GMM, an unit of...

DFS on track for completion by July 2012

Exploration and development company Ncondezi Coal Company is on track to complete its definitive feasibility study (DFS) on its Ncondezi Project by July 2012 and expects first coal production by the end of 2014, or early 2015.

5Mt/y Mozambique coal line to open in 2011

Mozambique’s Sena railway line is expected to carry five-million tons of coal a year, starting operations from July next year, as well as one-million tons of general cargo, such as cotton, granite and tobacco. Companhia Dos Caminhos De Ferro Da...

Riversdale reports lower Q3 production from SA anthracite mine

ASX-listed coal producer Riversdale Mining has reported that production from its Zululand Anthracite Colliery (Zac), in South Africa, had decreased by more than 4 800 t, during the quarter ended March. Production from Zac reached 179 700 t during...

Brazil’s Vale raises Moatize coking coal output forecast

Brazilian diversified miner Vale has already spent $300-million on the development of the mine industrial complex at its Moatize coal mine, in Mozambique, and has increased estimates for coking coal production to 12,7-million tons a year in the...