SA may regulate coal exports

On Wednesday [last week], Mineral Resources Deputy Minister Godfrey Oliphant said that Eskom was suffering because low-grade coal was being sold to India and China because it was more profitable for the producers to export the coal than to sell it to Eskom. The producers then sold a very poor quality product to Eskom.

South Africa has very little high-grade coal and Eskom's power stations have been designed for a low-grade product, but the quality of the coal it currently receives is too poor.