State mining company calls for more bids on torbanite project
South Africa’s State-owned mining company, African Exploration Mining & Finance Corporation (AEMFC), is inviting tenders for a basic engineering study to be carried out on a process plant and beneficiation method for the torbanite project (T-project) in Mpumalanga.
This follows the State-owned Central Energy Fund’s (CEF’s) invitation to service providers to submit proposals for a prefeasibility study (PFS) to determine the capital and operating costs for the design, construction and delivery of the T-project’s process plant.
The T-project, which is being developed north-west of Kinross, is expected to process three-million tons a year of the No 5 Seam coal deposit.
Mineable No 5 Seam coal volumes reportedly total 82.5-million tons, while No 4 Seam stands at 137-million tons and the No 2 Seam coal resource at a lesser number.
Mechanised narrow-seam bord and pillar mining for the No 5 Seam is anticipated from 30 m to 130 m below surface.
The torbanite, or fine-grained black oil shale, associated with the No 5 Seam is found in the seam’s 53-cm-thick upper band and its 23-cm-thick lower band.
Bids for the PFS had to be submitted on September 19 and bids for the latest basic engineering tender must be in by October 11.
OpeningState President Jacob Zuma opened AEMFC’s first coal mine in Ogies in 2011 to secure coal supply for State-owned power utility Eskom.
At that stage, AEMFC had already reached an advanced stage of study on the T-project.
Zuma turned the first sod at the Vlakfontein coal mine, which is situated 100 km east of Johannesburg and 10 km north-west of Ogies.
While Eskom burns 130-million tons of coal a year, the Vlakfontein mine began producing at a rate of 800 000 t/y.
AEMFC is a subsidiary of the CEF, which acquired mines in the area to store crude oil during the apartheid period.
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