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Tweefontein Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Nkangala, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Location
Table 1: Project-level location details
| Mine Name | Location | Coordinates (WGS 84) |
|---|---|---|
| Tweefontein Coal Mine | Nkangala, Mpumalanga, South Africa | -26.0383942, 29.1613318 (exact) |
The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:
Project Details
Table 2: Project status
| Status | Status Detail | Opening Year | Closing Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating | – | – | – |
Table 3: Operation details
| Capacity (Mtpa) | Production (Mtpa) | Year of Production | Mine Type | Mining Method | Mine Size (km2) | Mine Depth (m) | Workforce Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 5.25[1] | 2023[1] | Underground & Surface | Mixed | – | 60* | 750[2] |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 144[3] | 2023[3] | 880[3] | Witbank | Bituminous | Thermal | – |
Table 5: Ownership and parent company
| Owner | Parent Company | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|
| Glencore South Africa | Glencore PLC [79.8%]; African Rainbow Minerals Ltd [20.2%] | Switzerland, South Africa |
Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset.
Background
Tweefontein Complex is a group of operating surface and underground coal mines jointly owned by Glencore and African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), near Emalahleni, in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
The complex includes the Tweefontein North and Tweefontein South mine sites, of which only the Tweefontein North branch is currently being mined.[4] Tweefontein Complex is a group of operating surface and underground coal mines jointly owned by Glencore and African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), near Emalahleni, in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
The complex includes the Tweefontein North and Tweefontein South mine sites, of which only the Tweefontein North branch is currently being mined.[4] The Tweefontein mine began operating "at the turn of the last century."[5] The operation, which is owned by Glencore, has two sites within it: Tweefontein North and Tweefontein South.
The Tweefontein North development includes five coal seams, with all except seam No. 3 contributing to the coal resources. The mining right for Tweefontein North expired on 27 March 2020, however, a renewal application was lodged in March 2020. Coal reserves at the mine can be extracted by both opencast truck-and-shovel or dragline, and underground bord-and-pillar mining methods, and are sufficient to support a mine life of 13 years (until 2034).
At Tweefontein South, which is contained in the iMpunzi new order mining right, mining rights expire on 28 March 2029, though no mining was conducted here since at least 2018. Coal Reserves for Tweefontein South are sufficient to support a mine life of 10 years.[6]
In 2014, the Tweefontein Optimization Project was undertaken, which "delivered a low-cost, long-life brownfield expansion that elevated Tweefontein into a modern, predominantly opencast operation that mines the rich pillar reserves that were left behind in discontinued underground workings.[5]
Since at least financial year 2018, coal production at Tweefontein has steadily declined.[7]
- Operator: Glencore Operations South Africa
- Owners: Glencore (79.8%), African Rainbow Minerals (20.2%)[7]
- Location: Municipality of Emalahleni, Nkangala District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
- GPS Coordinates: -26.0383942, 29.1613318 (exact)
- Status: Operating
- Production: 5.46 million tonnes per annum (2022)[7]
- Total Resource: 938 Mt (2021)[4]
- Mineable Reserves: 157 Mt (2021)[4]
- Coal type: Bituminous (Thermal)[6]
- Mine Size:
- Mine Type: Surface (open cut) & Underground (bord-and-pillar)[6]
- Start Year:
- Source of Financing:
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Additional data
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240222113341/http://arm.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ARM-IAR-October-2023.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/glencores-new-low-cost-tweefontein-coal-mine-coming-in-below-budget-2014-11-28.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 (PDF) https://www.glencore.com/.rest/api/v1/documents/static/a53e27b1-6025-4ef2-9be8-f3be543dfb26/GLENCORE-Resources-and-Reserves-report-2023.pdf.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Glencore Resources & Reserves as of Decmber 2021, Glencore website, accessed November 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Glencore’s new low-cost Tweefontein coal mine coming in below budget", Creamer's Media Mining Weekly, November 28, 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Glencore Resources & Reserves as at 31 December 2019, Glencore website, 2019.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Integrated annual report 2022, African Rainbow Minerals website, accessed November 2022.
