Elandsfontein Colliery

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Elandsfontein Colliery is an operating coal mine in Clewer, Nkangala, Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Elandsfontein Colliery	Clewer, Nkangala, Mpumalanga, South Africa	-25.907458, 29.0925901 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	–	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	0.6	–	Underground & Surface	Mixed	8.3	60*	451*

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
7.07	–	8.03	Witbank	Bituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Anker Coal and Mineral Holdings	Anker Holdings	South Africa, Netherlands

Expansion/Extension

Table 6: Project status

* Added capacity of a coal mine refers to the enhancement in the mine's production capabilities beyond its initial production capacity.

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Project Phase	Added Capacity (Mtpa)*	Start Year
Proposed	Announced	Extension	–	–	–

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset.

Background

Elandsfontein Colliery is an opencast and underground coal mine in the Nkangala District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Elandfsfontein Colliery is situated approximately 10 km south of Delmas, off the R42 road in the Emalahleni Local Municipality, immediately west of the village of Clewer. Owned by Anker Coal and Mineral Holdings, the mine produces coal for the local and export markets at a rate of 500,000 tonnes per annum. The quality of the coal dictates that the coal will be used in the power generation sector. The coal will be sold as an export product (approximately 60%) and a domestic product (approximately 40%) to Eskom. Historically, it's coal has been produced from the No. 1 Seam (underground bord-and-pillar operation) and an opencast operation on the No. 4 and No. 2 Seams.

The existing opencast operations have an approximate extent of 257 hectares, while the mine's underground footprint covers an approximate area of 182 hectares. A total area of 830 hectares was granted in the mining lease.

• Operator: Elandsfontein Colliery Ltd
• Owner: Anker Coal and Mineral Holdings (Pty) Ltd
• Location: near Clewer, Nkangala District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
• Coordinates: -25.907458, 29.0925901 (exact)
• Mine Status: Operating
• Start Year:
• Production: 0.6 million tonnes per annum
• Total Reserves: 8.03 million tonnes
• Mineable Resource: 7.07 million tonnes
• Coal Type: Bituminous (Thermal)
• Mine Type: Surface & underground
• Workforce size:
• Source of Financing:

Expansion

The mine currently holds two mining rights but plans to consolidate the two mining right areas into a single mining right. Elandsfontein Colliery also plans to extend their opencast and underground mining areas, by an additional 69.47 and 379 hectares, respectively, within the existing mining right areas to extend the life-of-mine (LoM) which is currently 12 years.

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