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South Africa
Belfast Mine

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 Location:
29 km SW from Emakhazeni, South Africa

  Regional Office:
The conneXXion 263B, West Avenue Die Hoewes
Centurion
South Africa
0163
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Dense media separation
Mine Life12 years (as of Jan 1, 2019)


Owners

Source: p. 25
CompanyInterestOwnership
Exxaro Resources Ltd. 100 % Indirect

Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:

The Belfast mine is located some 10km south-west of the town of Belfast in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on the far eastern edge of the Witbank coalfield. The coalfield extends about 190km east-west between the towns of Springs and Belfast, and about 60km in a north-south direction between the towns of Middelburg and Ermelo. The mineral tenure areas of Umsimbithi Mining and Universal Coal (Paardeplaats) are to the north of Belfast with the Umsimbithi Mining Wonderfontein coal mine to the far west.

Belfast Coal has an approved mining right that covers 7 198ha. The geological model incorporates 616 boreholes. The geological database also includes 113 boreholes outside the mining right area.

Belfast geology.
The Witbank coalfield has up to five coal seams in the middle Ecca group sediments of the Karoo supergroup. The Karoo sequence in the area is represented by the Dwyka formation and the middle Ecca with little or no lower Ecca development. The middle Ecca sequence of coal horizons interbedded with sediments is highly truncated due to erosion with only very minor areas where the full sequence is developed. Locally, there are mainly three seams being targeted, seams 2 (S2), 3 (S3) and 4 (S4). Seam 5 (S5) was intersected in only two boreholes in the northern part of the project area. S2 the most prevalent seam is consistently developed, except in areas where it has been eroded, and has an average thickness of 2.8m dipping gently to the south. Both S3 and S4 are sporadically developed due to erosion and both have an average thickness of 0.6m. Due to the proximity of the northern edge of the Witbank Basin, the primary control of the coal development is the current weathering surface. The deposit is therefore divided by a perennial stream into two Resource blocks under two distinct spurs in the surface topography. There is no indication of pertinent faulting from the borehole information but potential intrusions of dolerite dykes are outlined by regional airborne magnetics, indicating the possible occurrence of regional north-south trending dykes.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

Mining method is open cast, strip mining (doze-over, truck and shovel).

The Belfast mine is adjacent to the N4 highway connecting Pretoria and Maputo, and can be accessed from the N4 via two district roads, namely D1110 and D1770. The mine is also adjacent to the railway line to Maputo. Nearby loading facilities connect the railway line to Richards Bay. Once fully developed, the mine will have seven opencast pits. There are prospects for additional opencast pits and an underground mining section.

Existing Eskom power lines are on the property for electricity supply. The mining right has been approved and all environmental appeals have been favourably addressed. Mining operations began in the first quarter of 2019 and will ramp up in 2020.

Coal Resources occur within most of the mining right whereas the Coal Reserve is limited to the southern mining right area aligned with the existing LoM plan. A project was initiated in 2019 to review the current exploitation strategy, including testing economic viability (macro- economic outlook) of the northern area considering both open cut, and underground mining scenarios.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Dense media separation

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Summary:

Thermal coal is beneficiated in a two-stage dense medium separation plant to produce a primary product of 6 000kcal/kg net as received (NAR) and a secondary product of 21.6MJ/kg. Both products are suitable for the export market but the secondary product can also be sold in the domestic market. Mobile crush-and-screen plants may be brought on-site as needed.


Production:

CommodityUnits20202019
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Operational Metrics:

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Reserves at December 31, 2019:

CategoryTonnage Commodity
Proven 42.2 Mt Coal (thermal)
Probable 1.4 Mt Coal (thermal)
Proven & Probable 43.6 Mt Coal (thermal)
Measured 74.6 Mt Coal (thermal)
Indicated 20.1 Mt Coal (thermal)
Inferred 34.1 Mt Coal (thermal)
Total Resource 128.8 Mt Coal (thermal)

Financials:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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