Anglo launches R4.2bn Zibulo coal mine, to reach full output in Q3

Diversified miner Anglo American's newly launched R4.2-billion Zibulo Colliery near Ogies, in Mpumalanga, will reach its targeted output of eight-million tons a year by the third quarter of this year, thermal coal CEO Norman Mbazima said...

Goedgevonden project, South Africa

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

DMO project goes ahead

Diversified miner BHP Billiton successfully implemented the large-scale Douglas/Middelburg optimisation (DMO) energy coal project in September this year.

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.

Douglas/Middelburg optimisation project, South Africa

The project is complete.

Klipspruit ship comes in, Douglas/Middelburg project ahead

Diversified miner BHP Billiton has done well to come in below budget and on schedule with its long-awaited Klipspruit energy-coal project in Mpumalanga province, but the current stronger-than-expected South African rand is currently likely to be...

Zondagsfontein coal project, South Africa

The Zondagsfontein project will entail the construction of an underground mine and an opencast pit.

Douglas/Middelburg optimisation (DMO) project, South Africa

The DMO project scope includes the use of reserves across the Douglas and Middelburg Mine Services (MMS) collieries and the development of new mining areas with low strip ratio coal.

Phola coal-processing plant, South Africa

The project will see the construction of a 16-million-ton-a-month coal-washing facility.

Klipspruit capacity to double by 2009

Resources giant BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa’s (Becsa) run-of-mine capacity of the Klipspruit opencast mine, in Mpumalanga, is to be expanded to 8-million tons a year from its current 4,8-million tons a year.

Bulk materials handling company unaffected by current economic slowdown

Engineered products and equipment company, Bateman Engineered Technologies (BET), has recently been awarded a number of large contracts in bulk materials handling that have been well timed for the company owing to a current economic slowdown....

BHP Billiton spending R11bn on SA energy coal projects

The coal arm of BHP Billiton, BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa (Becsa), is spending R11-billion on two large new local coal projects, one of them the biggest single energy coal initiative the global group has ever undertaken. Becsa is...