Keaton settles DRA dispute

[miningmx.com] – KEATON Energy, the Johannesburg-listed coal producer and development firm, said it had ended a dispute with DRA, an engineering firm without providing details of the settlement.

The agreement settles “… all claims and disputes, being both historic and future liabilities arising out of the construction and commissioning…” of phase two of the coal processing plant at Vanggatfontein by DRA, it said.

Keaton was also in dispute with Megacube, a business unit of Sentula Mining regarding work at Vanggatfontein, Keaton’s flagship operation in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province.