Penumbra coal project, South Africa

Continental Coal has provided an update on the decline development activities at Penumbra for the month of April.

Zibulo coal mine, South Africa

Anglo American's Zibulo colliery will reach its targeted output of eight-million tons a year by the third quarter of this year.

Penumbra coal project, South Africa

Continental Coal has started blasting activities to construct the twin decline development at the Penumbra mine.

Phola–Kusile overland coal conveyor project, South Africa

Construction of an overland conveyor to transport coal from the Phola coal processing plant to the Kusile power station, in Mpumalanga, is expected to start in August 2012.

Goedgevonden project, South Africa

The project involves the development of a major new greenfield, opencut, thermal coal mine, in Mpumalanga.

Mozambique coal project receives modular plant after test period

Coal producer Rio Tinto Coal Mozambique (RTCM) has purchased a modular coal handling plant for its Zambeze coal project in Mozambique, as a result of a test pit project used to provide data for coal processing, and to maximise the extraction of...

New Largo coal mine draft scoping report available for review till May 20

Global diversified miner Anglo American subsidiary Anglo American Inyosi Coal (AAIC) has prepared a draft scoping report on the proposed New Largo colliery, and the document was expected to be available for review for 40 days from April 4 to May 20.

Latest updates on the DMO project

Diversified miner BHP Billiton reports that its Douglas/Middelburg optimisation (DMO) project, in Mpumalanga, is complete and that the first coal has been delivered on schedule and within budget.

Somkhele coal processing plant, South Africa

The project involves the construction of a second coal processing plant at Petmin's Somkhele mine.

R120m plant to double Somkhele coal capacity – Petmin

Multicommodity company Petmin’s shares on the JSE surged by nearly 10% on Thursday, after the company announced that it would invest R120-million on a second coal processing plant at its Somkhele mine, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal...

Klipspruit opencast coal mine expansion, South Africa

The run-of-mine capacity of the Klipspruit opencast mine was expanded from 4,8-million tons a year to eight-million tons a year.

Two drive pulleys for conveyor belt

The conveyor belt running between mining giants Anglo Thermal’s Zibulo mine and BHP Billiton’s Klipspruit project’s Phola coal processing plant, in Emalahleni, in Mpumalanga province, is sixteen km long, and is the longest variable-speed...