[miningmx.com] – UNIVERSAL Coal produced 172,000 tonnes of coal from its newly commissioned Kangala coal mine in February, 28,000 tonnes above budget and record output from the Mpumalanga province operation.
The mine, which has targeted 2.4 million tonnes a year (mtpa) in production, began operations 12 months ago. Of February’s production, 160,000 tonnes of domestic thermal coal was delivered to Eskom and 12,000 tonnes were exported.
“With Kangala now hitting its strides, we look forward to delivering continual strong production and sales figures for the year ahead, in parallel with bringing on stream our next operation, the 2.8mtpa ROM NCC Roodelop,’ said Tony Weber, CEO of Universal.
