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Sasol Coal Mining Company to Build New Coal Mine Exports
Coal mining company Sasol has allocated R3,1-billion for the new export coal mine to replace the depleting Twisdraai operation.
The Thubelisha export coal mine, already under construction, will also supply Sasol’s synfuels factory in Secunda, in Mpumalanga province.
Sasol Mining’s output in the six months to December 31 was up 6%, but its profit of R170-million was [...]
Brazil Invests Multi-Billion Dollar for Natural Resources in Africa
Brazil, South America’s largest economy, is riding the growing tide of investment in Africa.
In fact, it is boldly poised to edge out other newly emerging economies such as hina and India with multi-billion dollar investments in natural resources. In Africa, once remote regions of Mozambique are reportedly turning into boomtowns, bustling with migrant workers and [...]
Africa Coal Mining Group Plans Coal Exports Of Cooperation With South Africa
Coal of Africa has coal mining exploration sites in the area of South Africa, including Mooiplaats, Vele and Makhado. To perform the export of coal, Coal of Africa are planning collaboration with South African companies that have certain groups that can use rail transport of coal from the mine site.
Mining Companies Agreement Coal Mining Exploration in Moatize Coal Mine Review
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Friday laid the first stone for the construction of an open cast coal mine in Moatize in the western province of Tete, that will be operated by the Brazilian mining giant, the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (nowadays known simply as Vale).
Coal Mining Company, Botswana Consider Using Matola Port To Export Coal Mine
The Botswana mining authorities are considering the possibility of using the port of Matola, in the Mozambican province of Maputo, to export coal produced in the country, said Kgomotso Abi, Botswana’s director of Mines.
Riversdale Mining Plans To Start Coal Mine Export From Mozambique 2010
Coal exports from Mozambique were all set for kick-off in 2010, the Cape Town coal conference heard on Thursday.
26 million tonnes Coal-mine Exports Plans by Exxaro Coal Resources
Miningmx cited Mr Ernst Venter general manager of Exxaro Coal as saying that EXXARO Resources plans to export 26 million tonnes of coal from its Grootegeluk coal mine as it increases production there to 120 million tonnes in a decade.
Mr Venter told Miningmx on the sidelines of the Coaltrans South Africa conference in Johannesburg “We [...]
Tanzania Govern. Mining Firm More To Pay Tax
The Government plans to review its taxation structure in this year’s national Budget to get especially the mining companies to pay more, the Finance minister says.
Mr Mustafa Mkulo, the Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, who is visiting neighbouring Mozambique, told The Citizen by telephone from Maputo yesterday that the review would particularly target the [...]
Africa’s new colonialists?
When China signed trade deals worth $1.9bn with African countries last November, without any conditions on reforms and human rights, a German development official warned Africans they risked becoming Chinese subjects.
“Our African partners really have to watch out that they will not be facing a new process of colonisation,” Karin Kortmann, Parliamentary State Secretary at [...]
