SAIL, through ICVL, owns three mines — Benga, Zambeze and Tete East. Of these, only Benga is operational. Coking coal is a key raw material for steel making. India, the second largest producer of crude steel globally, is also the largest importer of coking coal in the world, with shipments estimated at 70–75 million tonnes.

Mozambique primary coal exports was at level of 10,377 thousand short tons in 2022, down from 11,196 thousand short tons previous year, this is a change of 7.32%. The …

Jan 30, 2024. Coal exports from Mozambique strongly decreased in 2020. The export value declined to roughly 650 million U.S. dollars, down from 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. A ...

Benga Coal Project. Sedgman was initially engaged by Riversdale Mozambique to undertake feasibility and design, and then procurement, construction and commissioning …

Export Logistics Progress – Benga Stage 1 Sena Railway Line • Coal producers awaiting final approval from Government authorities Rolling Stock • Riversdale's rolling stock operations due to coincide with first coal export (Q4 2011) Port and Rail • Riversdale's railway siding infrastructure on track for receipt and railing to meet Q4 ...

Project-level coal details. Coal source(s): Benga coal mine Financing. Parent company: Steel Authority of India (SAIL) 49.59%, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL) 24.8%, NMDC 24.8%, NTPC 0.54%, CIL 0.27% Background. Riversdale Mozambique Limitada, a subsidiary of the Australian coal mining company Riversdale Mining, …

Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) along with its other partners in International Coal Ventures Ltd (ICVL) is eyeing an investment of $150–200 million as a capacity ramp-up is planned across coal mines in Mozambique, Africa. The move is also aimed at de-risking coking coal supplies from global price and supply volatilities. Expansion plans …

The Moatize coal mine located in the Tete Province of Mozambique is one of the world's biggest coal mines by reserves. Operated by Vale's subsidiary Vale Mocambique, the open-pit coal mine has been producing since August 2011. It is Vale's first greenfield project in Africa with the company granted the concession to build and operate the ...

In Mozambique, major global mining companies such as Vale and Rio Tinto are developing major coking coal export projects which could make Mozambique one of the world's …

Thermal coal cargoes leaving Beira typically have a calorific value of NAR 5,500 kcal/kg or NAR 5,800 kcal/kg, and are often procured by Indian and Middle Eastern cement manufacturers. South African exports to Mozambique fell to 912,200t in the first half of 2019 from 1.5mn t in the same period of 2018. By Elaine Mills.

The Benga project, majority owned by Riversdale, with Tata Steel holding a 35% share, is located in northern Mozambique near Vale's Moatize project. Benga has a resource of 2.1 billion tonnes of high quality coking and thermal coal, of which some 1.75 billion tonnes is less than 500 metres deep and amenable to opencast mining.

Since acquisition, a total of 44 shipments (around 1.5 million tonnes) of coking coal have been made by ICVL, which have accrued an earning of about $121 million. Coking coal prices soared to a high of over $300/per tonne in November last year after remaining below $100 a tonne since 2015. The prices have now corrected to rule at …

Tete province has registered a 47% growth in the production of mineral coal exported to foreign markets. This is the thermal and metallurgical coal produced in the Moatize and Marara coalfields by the multinationals VULCAN, ICVL and Jindal Africa. The information was shared this Friday morning by the Director of the Provincial …

Beacon Hill's Minas Moatize coal operation in the Tete province of Mozambique London, England — MININGREVIEW — 04 January 2012 – British company Beacon Hill Resources has announced that it has begun exporting coal from the central Mozambican port of Beira.. In a statement issued here the company said that the …

Benga is a greenfield coking and thermal coal mine located in the Tete Province of Mozambique. The mine will initially use two drifts extending to the Harrow Creek Upper coal seam, 270m vertically below surface. ... (WICET) by rail for export. Aquila has been allocated 1.6Mtpa of port capacity at the WICET for the Eagle Downs …

In a July 2011 presentation Andrew Woodley, Executive Director Riversdale Mozambique Limitada, described the Moatize Basin as the "world's next major coal basin" with premium hard coking coal and high energy thermal coal" and "low cost, long life operations". In his presentation Woodley stated that the Benga mine would begin exports in late 2011 and …

at Benga Benga, Mozambique — MININGREVIEW — 15 April 2010 ... This will yield an annual output of 1.7 million tonnes of hard coking coal and 0.3 million tonnes of export thermal coal. "Together we are committed to bringing the Benga coal mine into production, and shipping first coal by late 2011," Riversdale chairman Michael …

Get in touch with us now., Jan 30, 2024. Mozambique exported 8.8 million metric tons of coal in 2020. India was the largest importer of Mozambican coal, purchasing roughly four million metric ...

Maputo, Mozambique — 26 June 2012 – Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto has started exporting coal mined at its Benga mine, in the Moatize district of …

The geology of the Zambeze project is similar in structure to Benga and, as of end-May, the coal resource estimate at Zambeze stood at 9 billion tonnes. Wisco will earn the right to buy at least 40% of the coking coal produced from Zambeze as well as the right to buy at least 10% of the coking coal from Benga, in both cases on market terms.

Benga is the first plant in Africa to feature reflux classifier technology. Stage one processes 5.3 Mt/a of raw coal to produce 1.7 Mt/a of high quality coking coal and 0.3 Mt/a of export thermal coal. The CHPP has been designed for an initial throughput of 800 t/h with provision for staged expansion to 3,000 t/h. The project was delivered ...

Benga is a greenfield coking and thermal coal mine located in the Tete Province of Mozambique. Environmental approval (EIS) for the mine was granted in January 2010, …

So, thermal coal prices soared way above coking coal prices globally forcing thermal coal users to switch to coking coal in many cases. This, in part, contributed to higher coking coal trade volumes. Although China's crude steel production declined 2% 2022, domestic production of coking coal also fell marginally, thereby creating room for exports.

Benga power plant nears completion Kibo Energy the developers of Benga Power Plant Proj-ect (BPPP) remains optimis- ... thermal and coking coal in January-June 2019, up from 975,000t in the same peri-od of 2018. Thermal coal accounted for ... South African exports to Mozambique fell to 912,200t in the first half of 2019 from

"The first stage of the Benga project will produce an estimated 1.7 million metric tonnes of coking coal and 300 000 tons of thermal coal for export," Riversdale said here in a statement to the Australian stock exchange. "Construction will start by the end of this year," it added.

Based on washability analyses, of potential coal products that could be produced after beneficiation the project includes an export hard coking coal and a secondary thermal coal product ...

coal mine in Moatize. By the end of the five-year concession, Vale is expected to produce 12 million tonnes of coking and thermo-coal, mainly for its Asian exports. To transport the coal, Vale currently uses the rehabilitated railway to the Beira port. As this corridor has limited capacity, Vale is planning the construction of a new 912

A 525 km railway to connect the port to coal mines in Tete Province is also planned, plus a shorter spur link to mines in Chitima. Several years after the project was shelved, Thai Moçambique Logistica (TML) has revived its plan to build a new coal port at Macuse near the mouth of the River Zambezi in Mozambique.

Mozambique is heavily focused on coal, which makes the country highly susceptible to fluctuations in the price of coal. As a result of the downside risks, in 2021, Vale announced the sale of its Mozambique coal assets to Vulcan. Vale sold the company's Moatize coal mine and the Nacala logistics corridor for a total of US$270 …