Company Announcement: Concor makes good progress with development of Vlakfontein Opencast Coal Mine

Concor Opencast Mining has made excellent progress with the establishment of the new Vlakfontein coal mine near Ogies in Mpumalanga since moving onto the greenfields site in February 2011.

Company Announcement: Phola-Kusile Overland Coal Conveyor

Anglo American Inyosi Coal is proposing to develop an overland conveyor to transport coal from the Phola Coal Processing Plant to Eskom’s Kusile Power Station currently under construction, just south of the N4 highway between Bronkhorstspruit,...

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...

DEAL CLINCHING

Wescoal CEO Andre Bojé credits the company's black economic-empowerment company, Yellow Beak Minerals, with helping it to win a three-year contract to supply 80 000 t/m of coal to South Africa's State-owned power utility, Eskom. Yellow Beak CEO...

R150M CAPEX ON WAY AT KENDAL

Journalists converged on Kendal colliery last week to get a first-hand squiz of the mine that is the flagship of the Toronto-listed Homeland Energy. Homeland is intent on increasing output at Kendal to 180 000 t/m during 2010. Pictured...

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...

Homeland Energy opens Kendal colliery in SA

TSX-listed Homeland Energy Group would continue to pursue further growth opportunities in South Africa, Southern Africa and in the US, CEO Stephen Coates affirmed on Wednesday. The miner on Wednesday officially opened its flagship coal mine, the...

Homeland Energy heads for production with granting of key mining licence

TSX-listed Homeland Energy Group has received the go ahead from South Africa's Department of Minerals and Energy to start mining at its Kendal coal mine, near Witbank, the firm said on Wednesday. The company plans to award the mining...

Canadian-listed company to build new coal mine in South Africa

British Virgin Islands-based Homeland Energy Group, which is waiting for government go-ahead to start mining at its Kendal operation, in South Africa, will debut on the TSX last week.

SA-focused coal firm lists in Toronto

British Virgin Islands-based Homeland Energy Group, which is waiting for government go-ahead to start mining at its Kendal operation, in South Africa, will debut on the TSX on Wednesday. The company expects to receive its mining licence for the...

South African coal miner looks to continent for growth

The coal arm of diversified mining house Metorex, Wakefield Investments, has embarked on a number of local and continental growth initiatives that include the expansion of three of its four mining operations in South Africa and the exploration of...

Numerous projects for mine-closure specialist

Mines often have a notable impact on the environment, even decades after closure, reports Golder Associates Africa mine-closure impact assessment specialist Andrew Brown.