Mmamabula

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Mmamabula
Mmamabula (Botswana)
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Coordinates 23 ° 37 ′  S , 26 ° 47 ′  E Coordinates: 23 ° 37 ′  S , 26 ° 47 ′  E
Basic data
Country Botswana

District

Central District
ISO 3166-2 BW-CE
height 916 m

Mmamabula is a mining and power plant project in the Central District in Botswana . It is located in an area that is rich in hard coal and is expected to include the construction and operation of two coal-fired power plants from 2020 .

geography

Mammabula is located in the south-east of the country, a little east of the A1 trunk road and a railway line that connects Gaborone and Francistown , the two largest cities in the country. The Serorome, a tributary of the Bonwapitse , flows north of Mmamabula and drains into the Limpopo . Mmaphashalala is located nearby .

Mmamabula lies above a coal field that is the western extension of the Waterberg coal field in South Africa .

Project progress

Coal Investment Corp. developed the first plans for coal extraction . , the forerunner of the Canadian group and licensee CIC Electric . The power plant was to be built by Shanghai Electric . In 2009, CIC Energy stopped the project due to a lack of purchase guarantees from South Africa. In 2012 the license was sold to the subsidiary Jindal BVI of the Indian group Jindal . In March 2019, Jindal JVI was acquired by Maatla Energy , a subsidiary of MRD Holding Ltd., which in turn is part of LiAria Trust , Botshi Trust and Sable Trust .

Possible rail routes to Namibia and South Africa were examined for the removal of the coal not used in the power plant . Finally, in 2019 a contract was signed to build a line to Lephalale in the Waterberg area in South Africa. The construction of the Trans-Kalahari Railway from Mmamabula to Namibia, where the Atlantic port of Walvis Bay would be reached via existing lines , has also been discussed since 2014 .

plans

Among other things, the construction of the Serorome Coal Mine is planned , in which mining is to be carried out for 30 years in order to operate the planned Mmamabula coal-fired power station with a planned installed capacity of 1.2  GW , which is to supply South Africa with electrical energy. 30% of the production is to take place in the opencast mine and 70% underground . Most of the warehouses are less than 140 m below the surface. According to sources, the deposits should contain over 90 Mt of steam coal . The water required for cooling is to be obtained from the Dikgatlhong Dam , which was set up in 2012 and is located north of the Shashe and , once it has been filled , will be the largest reservoir in the country.

Hard coal production is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2020. The export coal is initially to be brought around 20 km to a loading platform on the main Gaborone – Francistown line. Part of the coal extracted is earmarked for a 300 MW power plant in Botswana, the Domestic Power Project .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mmamabula Coal Project maatlaresources.com (English), accessed on July 15, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Mmamabula Coal Field jindalafrica.com (English), accessed July 22, 2019
  3. ↑ Mmamabula Energy Project jindalafrica.com (English), accessed on July 22, 2019
  4. ^ Jindal Group acquires CIC in Botswana. jindalafrica.com, accessed July 15, 2019