SA buyers 'queuing up' for Masama Coal Mine output

Minergy Limited’s Masama, currently under construction at a cost of P300 million, will be Botswana’s second colliery and the first open cast coal mine in the country. It is being developed 50 kilometres northwest of Gaborone and will export an initial one million tonnes per annum into South Africa from next year, from a 390-million tonne resource. Minergy CEO, Andres Boje told BusinessWeek that the company had already received strong demand from the South African market.

“We are going to operate within the South African spot market. We have done all our marketing and they are queuing up to buy our coal because there’s little available coal there,” he said.