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Export coal project, Botswana

5th April 2012

By: Sheila Barradas

Creamer Media Research Coordinator & Senior Deputy Editor

  

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Name and Location
Export coal project, Botswana.

Client
CIC Energy holds a 100% equity stake in the project.

Project Description
CIC Energy Corp is developing four projects at its Mmamabula coalfield. The coalfield comprises an exploration licence and a retention licence. The global mineral resource estimate for the project totals about 2.4-billion tons in the measured and indicated categories. CIC Energy’s export coal project intends to export seaborne traded steam coal from the M2 (lower) and D1 coal seams of its Mmamabula coalfield. Feasibility studies on the mines, the washing plants, rail, the coal terminal and port were completed in 2009 and the mining updates are done on a periodic basis.

The 1 500 km Trans Kalahari Rail line is proposed to be constructed by a transportation consortium to a port in Namibia.

Value
Not stated.

Duration
The export mines will take around three years to construct to first major production, followed by a production ramp-up period. The railway line will take three to four years to construct.

Latest Developments
The government of Botswana announced its Coal Sector Development Plan and its intention to make a decision this year on a rail line to export coal for completion in 2016/17.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
Aurecon (feasibility study).

On Budget and on Time?
Too early to state.

Contact Details for Project Information
CIC Energy Botswana, tel +267 391 1982 or fax +267 391 1986.
Tau Capital Corp investor relations VP Erica Belling, tel +1 416 361 9636 or
email ebelling@taucapital.com.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Magazine Managing Editor

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