Upcoming coal mine eyes regional market

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Fighting on: Operations at Morupule Coal Mine near Palapye. The country will soon see the commissioning of a new coal mine PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Maatla Resources, which has spent $20 million developing a coal mine in eastern Botswana, says production is due to kick off in the second quarter of next year at a rate of up to 50,000 tonnes a month.

Maatla controls the Mmamabula Coal Project on the well-explored eastern coalfields, which contains over 90 million tonnes of high-grade thermal coal.

CEO Jacques Badenhorst told BusinessWeek funding was in place to finalise construction of the mine and the offtake arrangements had been finalised.

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