SA coal price recovery to continue as Asia demand reminds world...
THE international thermal coal market is staging a major recovery pushing prices to around $130/t free on board (fob) out of Richards Bay as...
Nersa approves new electricity supply deal for South32’s Hillside aluminium smelter
YEARS of wrangling over a new electricity supply contract to the Hillside aluminium smelter in KwaZulu-Natal was resolved today after the National Energy Regulator...
Thungela to undershoot 2021 thermal coal target as Transnet rail crisis...
THUNGELA Resources is forecast to undershoot production guidance for its 2021 financial year of 16 million tons (Mt) owing to a decline in rail...
MC Mining says Uitkomst colliery resumes after losing about 5,600 tons...
MINING resumed at the Uitkomst Colliery in KwaZulu-Natal province, said 70% owner MC Mining in a statement to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
An estimated three-and-a-half...
Coal production from KwaZulu-Natal disrupted by last week’s violent protests
COAL production from KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa was widely disrupted last week owing to violent protests initially related to the imprisonment of the...
Freight lines, coal logistics under threat as attacks tear through SA’s...
VIOLENT attacks on retail centres, industrial assets, and infrastructure in KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa could cripple the country's freight logistics, said BusinessLive citing...
MC Mining shuts gates to discourage looting spreading to Uitkomst mine
MC Mining, a coal miner operating in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal, said today it had temporarily suspended operations at its 70%-owned Uitkomst mine owing to...
Botswana hoping to build six new thermal coal mines, with Govt.’s...
BOTSWANA was hoping to develop six new coal mines and a rail link for exports, said Bloomberg News citing government sources and Charles Siwawa, CEO...
Transnet says “things have to change” after coal derailment triggers urgent...
TRANSNET, South Africa's state-owned freight and logistics company, is to review all recent train derailments as it sought to "identify trends" amid a declaration...
SA coal exports facing new disruption as Transnet suffers another train...
COAL exports from South Africa face further disruption after the state-owned freight and logistics company, Transnet, suffered another train derailment, said BusinessLive.
Transnet Freight Rail...