Minergy outlines large new Botswana coal project
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Exploration company Minergy Limited has outlined a new coal project in the Mmamabula coalfield in Botswana.
Executive director Claude de Bruin, who addressed last week’s Botswana Resource Sector Conference in Gaborone, has announced a maiden Coffey Mining-conducted Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant inferred coal resource of 2.8-billion tons, at the private company’s 100%-owned Masama project.
The shallow, flat-lying deposit is said to contain export-quality coal, estimated at 1.2-billion tons, with potential to increase the size of the resource in future exploration programmes.
Botswana’s north-south rail, road, electricity and water pipeline corridor traverses Botswana’s Mmamabula, which, with South Africa’s adjacent Waterberg field are said to contain enough coal to justify the expansion of the current rail system to the ports of Richards Bay and Durban, through the depleting Witbank coalfield.
The diminishing Witbank coalfield is expected to leave the area’s Eskom power stations with a shortfall of more than 40-million tons of coal a year in coming years.
Mmamabula and Waterberg are positioned to supply Eskom’s power stations with coal and also provide export coal to Capesize vessels destined for markets in India and Asia.
Minergy said that Masama’s quality and yield also presented a potential for scalability to achieve large production scenarios without the need to construct a power station.
However, the power needs in the Southern African Development Community region may motivate a case for investigating the building of a power station at Masama as a potentially profitable and standalone business.
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