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Zim coal mine output to surge on underground mining

13th July 2018

By: Bloomberg

  

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wange Colliery expects to boost underground coal production fivefold this month when it restarts operations after a two-year hiatus, a company official has said.

The resumption will help the lossmaking company tap more lucrative deposits of coking coal, used to make steel, as it seeks to report its first profit since 2012. Zimbabwe miners, who produced two-million tons of coal last year, are targeting ten-million tons of output in two years, which would enable them to begin exporting the fuel.

Underground mining would restart at Hwange once remaining pieces of equipment had been delivered, acting MD Shepard Manamike said in an interview last week in the capital, Harare. Operations were halted in 2016 when a continuous miner broke down.

“We will now be ramping up production to 50 000 t/m from 10 000 t, which we were producing in December, as we are now resuming underground mining,” Manamike said. “The resumption of underground mining will cost $5-million in capital equipment.”

Zimbabwe has five coal mining companies that supply coal to State-owned Zimbabwe Power, which requires 240 000 t of the fuel a month. Hwange produced 232 000 t of coal from opencast operations in the first quarter, more than double the amount a year earlier.

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