South Africa passes through KZN, mostly via the Richards Bay Coal Terminal, actual coal mining has decreased significantly in the province; from providing 40% of South Africa's coal production in 1900,12 to about 1% at present (about 3 million tons per annum). The …
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All coal from an area, including the lowest seam, must be removed before the excavation can be backfilled," reads a report from the mining company's environmental consultants. Minetek Resources, the mining company behind the project, has identified the application area as located 5 kilometres west of Newcastle, spanning a vast 3,269 ...
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The Pietermaritzburg High Court has granted an interim interdict halting new mining activity as part of the controversial expansion of the Somkhele coal mine in KwaZulu-Natal. Petmin's Tendele Mining, which operates the mine, said in a statement that on Friday that the court granted the urgent application, brought by All Rise Attorneys …
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Mining & Energy; Date April 24, 2021; Simeka owns 51% of the Springlake Colliery which is an anthracite coal mine situated within the Klipriver Coalfield near Hattingspruit, some 15km northwest of the town of Dundee in KwaZulu Natal Province. The project was bought with farming land in excess of 2 400 hectares . Dundee area is a …
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Ikwezi Mining is a visionary mining company operating in the Kwa-zulu Natal province of South Africa. We operate the Kliprand Colliery and Emoyeni coal beneficiation plant in Dannhauser, Kwa-zulu Natal and are in the process of developing the Ikwezi Ngagane rail siding near the Ngagane power station in Newcastle.
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PERFECTING THE PROCESS. Proudly shining as its nation's largest business and the responsible operator of the impressive Moatize coal mine is Vulcan Mozambique (Vulcan), a fully-owned subsidiary of Vulcan International.. Like the mighty god of flames, patron of the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking, and the forge in ancient Roman religion and …
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This article considers the situation in a once important coal-mining region in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, focusing particularly on the community of Utrecht. In the postapartheid period, unemployment in the area has escalated, at a time when greater empowerment of the historically disadvantaged black population is urgently needed.
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a process of deindustrialization (Jalilian and Weiss 2000). In this article, we examine how, in the case of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province of South Africa, the loss of coal …
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Trade and Investment KwaZulu-Natal is a South African trade and inward investment promotion agency, established to promote the province of KwaZulu-Natal as an investment destination and to facilitate trade by assisting local companies to access international markets. The organisation identifies, develops and packages investment …
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Mining was responsible for about 2% of KwaZulu-Natal's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013, which is to say R9.3-billion. Half of the province's mining output (and 3.3% of South Africa's) comes from Richards Bay Minerals (RBM). RBM mines the minerals sands of the northern KwaZulu-Natal coast and operates out of Richards Bay.
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the history of coal mining in south Africa Coal was discovered in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Province, and first documented between 1838 and 1859. The first commercial mining took place near Molteno, in the Eastern Cape, in 18701. The discovery of diamonds at Kimberley in 1870 and gold on the Witwatersrand
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Rural families removed from their homes in Somkhele, in northern KwaZulu-Natal province, to make way for a giant coal mine are suffering from collective trauma, a new report has found.
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Aviemore East is located seven kilometres from the town of Dundee in KwaZulu-Natal and coal mined here is processed at the Coalfields processing plant. It is anticipated that the current mining reserves at Aviemore East will be depleted by Q1 2023. ... Buffalo Coal plans to start mining at Balgray from Q1 2023, which will coincide with the ...
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In KwaZulu-Natal specifically, a team of Environmental Management Inspectors from the national Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment …
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Rural residents in KwaZulu-Natal have scored another legal victory against the Johannesburg-based Tendele coal mining company, winning an interim court interdict that compels the company to cease ...
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The impact of mine closure can have a devastating effect on the local economies of the towns that they once supported. Drawing on comparative, international material, this article examines the nature and effectiveness of the local economic development responses that have been initiated in the former coal-mining towns in northern KwaZulu-Natal in …
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In a Mining Review Africa discussion on South Africa's and some key Southern African coal fields, members of SRK's coal team, Andy Birtles and Graham Soden, emphasised that when companies plan future projects, it is now essential to analyse the coal deposit fully. "Companies often undertake the initial exploration and, as drill …
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The main inland mines are located near Dundee (anthracite), Newcastle, Utrecht and Hlobane (bituminous coal) in Northern KZN. The anthracite mines at Mahlabatini and …
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Tender Title Tender Number Briefing Date Closing Date; Appointment of a Panel of Service Providers to Transport Crushed Coal for African Exploration Mining and Finance Corporation (soc) Ltd ("aemfc") from Vlakfontein Mine to Eskom Power Stations for a Period of Thirty-six (36) Months.
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Exploration drilling in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, plays an integral role in the success of the region's mining and geological exploration endeavors. Its importance cannot be overstated as it is a key factor in identifying & …
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Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset. Background Kliprand Coal Mine is an opencast mine in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, owned and operated by Ikwezi Mining, a subsidiary of Oza Holdings.. It is the initial opencast operation within Ikwezi's …
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Mining permits are not transferable. They are aimed at controlling prospecting and mining, having regard to considerations for health and safety, environmental management and the responsible extraction of minerals. A mining permit is valid for the period specified on the permit, but may not exceed two years.
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Similarly, areas in the northern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) region – once one of the country's primary coal belts – effectively collapsed during the 1990s [67]. In such regions, constraints on investment and development, the migration of skilled workers, and ostracisation by the business community have seen towns in the coal-rim cluster such …
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The Department of Mineral Resource is convening the KwaZulu Natal Mining Indaba in Newcastle – a town devastated and impoverished because of coal mining. The meeting at the KwaZulu Natal (KZN) Mining Indaba restricted community participation to only three participants, meaning the truth of mining in the area will not …
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" Plans for a new coal mine and 1 000MW power station near the town of Colenso have raised fears about clouds of toxic air pollution and contamination of the uThukela, the province's largest river system. " Colenso Power hopes to build a new coal-burning power station close to the old Eskom power station that was shut in the early …
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Most of the coal produced in KwaZulu-Natal is used by industries in the province or exported via the port of Durban, with very little distribution into other provinces to the north. The coal mining industry has in the past used rail transport wherever possible, and where necessary newer mines transport coal by road to a point where it can be ...
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Mining Method Mine Size (km2) Mine Depth (m) Workforce Size – 0.72: 2021: Underground & Surface Mixed 24: 60* 518* ... Springlake Coal Mine is a surface and underground coal mine in KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa. There have been no public reports about the mine, which was due to exhaust its resources around 2018, in …
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South Africa passes through KZN, mostly via the Richards Bay Coal Terminal, actual coal mining has decreased significantly in the province; from providing 40% of South Africa's coal production in 1900,12 to about 1% at present (about 3 million tons per annum). The Marble Delta is a geological feature situated close to the
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Coal mining began in this area in the early 1860's. Peter Smith had found coal on his farm "Dundee" in 1864 and his neighbour, E. Howe Pascoe, had also begun mining operations on "Coalfields". Many people were attracted to the mines and the need for a town was soon being discussed. E. Howe Pascoe died
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The range of studies includes work on the local development impacts and responses to the downscaling of gold mining in the Free State (Seidman, 1993; Binns and Nel, 2001; Nel and Binns, 2001), the ...
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2.1. Co-operation between the labour and environmental movements. Given that the climate crisis is deepening, and that workers in the extractive sector are most vulnerable in a shift away from coal to a new energy regime, it could be expected that the most powerful driver of a transformative just transition would be co-operation between …
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In the coalfields of KZN anthracite, bituminous and thermal coal can be mined successfully using modern technology to access notoriously narrow seams. Issues …
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Climate change and water security in KwaZulu-Natal. Weather events such as drought and heatwaves, are among the most principal natural extremes experienced in South Africa (Kruger and Nxumalo Citation 2017).A global temperature rise of 2°C is likely to translate to a 4°C increase for the country with less rain for the west of South Africa, …
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This article considers the situation in a once important coal‐mining region in northern KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa, focusing particularly on the community of Utrecht. In the postapartheid period, unemployment in the area has escalated, at a time when greater empowerment of the historically disadvantaged black population is urgently needed.
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a process of deindustrialization (Jalilian and Weiss 2000). In this article, we examine how, in the case of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province of South Africa, the loss of coal mining in the 1990s and the early years of the twenty-first century is having a region-ally specific impact as severe as that expe-rienced in the old industrial areas of ...
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