The main inland mines are located near Dundee (anthracite), Newcastle, Utrecht and Hlobane (bituminous coal) in Northern KZN. The anthracite mines at Mahlabatini and …
Newcastle Coal Mine Project, KwaZulu Natal Province Site Visit Report (Phase 2) For Cabanga Environmental 10 December 2022 Prof Marion Bamford ... The Holder of the Prospecting Right is now in the process of applying for a Mining Right. Surface activities will be limited to the Eastern Section
Uitkomst Colliery is an underground coal mine in KwaZulu-Natal province, producing metallurgical and thermal coal for domestic and international markets. It has a 16-year life of mine, with a planned extension to the …
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 …
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 ...
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 & …
In the coalfields of KZN anthracite, bituminous and thermal coal can be mined successfully using modern technology to access notoriously narrow seams. Issues …
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 ...
KZN coal mining set for major revival Although a colliery near Dannhauser in northern KZN is poised to commence production later this year, the possible combination of several "farms" in Glencoe into a mine may mark the true revival of KZN coal mining. 16/09/2008. 1 minute read.
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.
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.
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 …
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, …
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 …
In this matter, the Global Environmental Trust, Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation and Mr Sabelo Dladla (applicants) applied to Court for an interdict restraining Tendele Coal Mining (Pty) Ltd (Tendele) from continuing coal mining operations on certain properties situated near the border of the Hluhluwe …
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 …
Uitkomst Colliery is an underground coal mine near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. It produces 0.6 million tonnes of coal per year for the …
Mining investment company Menar and partners have signed an agreement to develop the Riversdale Anthracite Colliery (RAC) project near Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This comes after Menar successfully completed a turnaround of prime anthracite producer Zululand Anthracite Colliery (ZAC), which is situated in the north of the province.
A VERY sensitive matter has surfaced in Dannhauser, KwaZulu-Natal, which is a small coal mining town in the northern part of the province. The town has suffered close to a century of coal mining and has had several environmental injustice cases that have haunted people and the communities in major ways from the apartheid …
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
In KwaZulu-Natal specifically, a team of Environmental Management Inspectors from the national Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
ABSTRACT The current study investigated the perceived impact of informal coal mining on the environment of a rural community in Blaauwbosch, KwaZulu-Natal Province, in South Africa. Data was extracted through questionnaires, focus group discussions and key informant interviews targeting perceptions from community members, government …
Coal Mining Process. The US burned roughly 700 million tons of coal in 2016—enough to fill a standard railroad car every 4 seconds. 90% of that coal consumption went into the generation of electricity, while the rest (just 10%) was burned for other industrial/commercial requirements. All of this coal comes from mines that are either …
The mine's reserves are estimated at 14 million tons of coal across over 12,000 hectares of land, of which 1.25 million tons were expected to be mined yearly [9, 11]. "Ikwezi Mining is a visionary mining company operating in the Kwa-zulu Natal province of South Africa.
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 ...
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
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 …
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 …