Grootegeluk
Situated 25 km from Lephalale in South Africa’s Limpopo province, this open-pit mine employs 1 800 people and produces 18,6Mtpa of thermal and semi-soft coking coal using a conventional truck and shovel operation. This mine has an estimated minable coal reserve of 811Mt and a total measured coal resource of 426 million tonnes, from which semi-soft coking coal, thermal coal and metallurgical coal can be produced.
Grootegeluk has the world’s largest beneficiation complex where 7 600 tonnes per hour of run-of-mine coal is upgraded in six different plants.
Some 15,3Mt of annual production is power station coal, transported directly to Eskom’s Matimba power station on a 7 km conveyor belt in terms of the existing supply contract. An additional 1,5Mtpa of metallurgical coal is sold domestically to the metals and other industries on short-term contracts. Grootegeluk produces 2,7Mtpa of semi-soft coking coal, the bulk of which is railed directly to Mittal SA under a long-term supply agreement. Approximately 1,1Mtpa of semi-soft coking coal and thermal coal is exported through Richards Bay Coal Terminal or sold domestically.
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Wim Diedericks
General Manager
Tel: +27 14 763-9000
Fax: +27 14 763 9108
wim.diedericks@exxaro.com
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