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CoAL gets environmental nod for Makhado

6th September 2013

By: Leandi Kolver

Creamer Media Deputy Editor

  

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism (LEDET) has granted Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) environmental authorisation for its R3.96-billion Makhado project, in the Soutpansberg coalfield.

“We welcome the decision by LEDET, which is a further step towards achieving full regulatory compliance for the Makhado project, and enabling meaningful contribution to the socioeconomic transformation of the Limpopo province,” CoAL CEO David Brown commented on Friday. 

He added that CoAL was fully committed to creating sustainable value in the areas in which it operated and that it would continue to engage with its stakeholders to ensure the responsible development of the Makhado project.

A definitive feasibility has defined a 16-year life-of-mine at Makhado, with mining expected to take place at an average rate of 12.6-million tonnes a year of run-of-mine to produce 2.3-million tonnes a year of hard coking coal and 3.2-million tonnes a year of thermal coal at a steady state.

The resource will be mined on an opencast basis, with the potential to expand underground.

Edited by Mariaan Webb
Creamer Media Contract Publishing Editor

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