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New limestone mine gets under way 2014 for cement producer

Sephaku Holdings CEO Dr Lelau Mohuba and Sephaku Cement CEO Pieter Fourie give Mining Weekly Online’s Martin Creamer the details of a new limestone mine for the JSE-listed company’s cement plant. Photographs: Duane Daws. Video: Nicholas Boyd. Editing: Shane Williams

20th November 2013

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

  

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – A new limestone operation that will supply JSE-listed cement producer Sephaku is scheduled to get under way early in the New Year near Lichtenburg, in the North West.

Sephaku Holdings on Wednesday reported an operating profit of R33.8-million for the six months to September 30 compared with a R10.1-million loss for 2012.

The company told the results presentation that mining would be outsourced to a contractor still to be named.

Sephaku Cement’s Aganang operation will produce at a rate of 6 000 t of clinker a day and 1.2-million tons of cement a year.

Sephaku Holdings CEO Dr Lelau Mohuba and Sephaku Cement CEO Pieter Fourie spoke to Mining Weekly Online in a video interview (see attached).

Fourie said the first limestone would be produced in March 2014.

“We’ve outsourced the mining and we’ve also included in their scope, empowerment and enterprise development,” Fourie said.

Work has begun on the main haul road and mining will take place on three faces to assure the correct quality limestone mix for the cement manufacturing operation.

Mining will take place at a rate of 2-million tons to 2.5-million tons of limestone a year for the next 30 years.

“We’ll have our first bag of cement in January, a little over a month from today,” Mohuba said, adding that cement production was expected to be at steady state in 2015.

Every ton of cement requires 1.6 t of limestone and some of the clinker produced at Aganang will be used at Delmas, where Sephaku has a grinding plant.

The company, which will use fly ash as an extender, expects to be South Africa’s lowest-cost producer, as the country’s first new entrant since 1934.

The group achieved revenue of R301.6-million from no revenue for the same period in 2012, following its acquisition of mixed-concrete company Metier.

Projected sales volumes point to capacity being take up by 2017.

“We think there is room for activities like this again post that period,” Mohuba added.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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