SA to remain heavily reliant on coal – analyst

Coal remains vital to the South African economy and would not soon be replaced as the main energy source, delegates heard at the Coaltrans South Africa conference in Sandton on Thursday. South Africa, which has an estimated 33.1-billion tons of...

CCTs the answer for coal-reliant SA

As climate change is becoming more problematic and pressure to conform to more environment-friendly operating methods builds, countries around the world are forced to look at alternative ways of combusting coal.

Is coal-reliant SA playing vacuously with its must-have mineral?

South Africa is more reliant on coal than any other country in the world, XMP Consulting analyst Xavier Prevost showed with an elaborate table of statistics flashed onto the screen at last week’s IHS McCloskey South African Coal Exports...

Is coal-reliant South Africa playing vacuously with its must-have mineral?

South Africa is more reliant on coal than any other country in the world, XMP Consulting analyst Xavier Prevost proved with an elaborate table of statistics flashed on to the screen at last week’s IHS McCloskey South African Coal Exports...

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...

Mozambique gears up to become coking coal hub

Mozambique is the scene of a global coal rush but the former Portuguese colony's vast reserves will be exploited at a snail's pace as it struggles to rebuild ports, roads and railways. "The coal resource is huge. On a five to seven year horizon...

Coal will continue to play a key role in SA power future

The use of coal to generate power in South Africa would only stop when the resource was depleted, and not because it would be replaced by renewable energy, XMP Consulting senior coal analyst Xavier Prevost said on Tuesday. South Africa, the...

Indonesian coal export ban could benefit SA producers

A ban on the export of lower-quality coal in Indonesia, the world’s top thermal coal exporter, could open a window of opportunity for South African producers. Investment bank Dahlman, Rose & Company stated in a report that the Energy and...

SA’s coal industry slipping through the cracks – analyst

Mining and project financial valuation company XMP Consulting senior coal analyst Xavier Prévost says South Africa’s coal industry is seeing decreased investment in current and new coal projects.

Transnet expects to rail 70Mt of coal to Richards Bay in 2011

South African State-owned rail transport enterprise Transnet expects to transport 70-million tons of export coal to the Richards Bay Coal Terminal in KwaZulu-Natal, says Transnet GM Divyesh Kalan. Kalan, who addressed the McCloskey coal...

Search for new coal deposits must be intensified
as big mines’ reserves deplete – Prevost

With a number of big collieries due to close around 2020 as coal reserves are depleted, efforts to discover new deposits should be intensified, a commentator has said.

Coal to be SA’s main energy source for decades

The supply of coal to the domestic market has been secured until 2040 according to State-owned power utility Eskom.