Morupule to double coal output by 2025

Friday, June 08, 2018

Morupule Coal plans to ride theof higher coal demand

The country's sole colliery, Morupule Coal Mine, plans to ramp up production from the current 2.8 million tonnes per annum to eight million in the next seven years, in order to tap into a widening regional supply gap, BusinessWeek has learnt.

Following several years of depression in the local sector due the collapse of plans to develop coal export routes, coal players are once again buoyant as the prices of the mineral have reached level last seen a decade ago.

Morupule Coal Mine (MCM) sits on approximately 3.5 billion tonnes of coal in eastern Botswana and executives say the current rate of mining is very low, rendering the resources under-utilised.

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Morupule to double coal output by 2025

The country's sole colliery, Morupule Coal Mine, plans to ramp up production from the current 2.8 million tonnes per annum to eight million in the next seven years, in order to tap into a widening regional supply gap, BusinessWeek has learnt.

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