[miningmx.com] – COAL production from South Africa’s state-owned mining company, the African Exploration & Mining Finance Corporation (AEMFC), may help alleviate Eskom’s coal deficit problems, said Bloomberg News.
With more production from the AEMFC, Eskom would be less prone to load-shedding, Mayihlome Tshwete, spokesman for Malusi Gigaba, South Africa’s public enterprises minister, told Bloomberg News.
“You’ll have a state mining house that is mining coal and supplying that coal to Eskom,’ Tshwete told Bloomberg News. “It may assist in a very good way.’ AEMFC sold 1.6 million tons of coal in the year ended March 2013, said Bloomberg News citing the Central Energy Fund’s annual report.
Eskom implemented a programme of nationwide load-shedding on March 6 which lasted for 12 hours after it shut 3,000MW of power from Kendal power station which had been supplied with wet coal.
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