Exploration & development

The deadline for Ncondezi Energy to meet the investment conditions within the joint development agreement with Shanghai Electric Power has been extended.

Mining costs estimated for the Ovoot metallurgical coal project in Mongolia have fallen 22% following a review of a 2012 pre-feasibility study.

Atrum Coal has received encouraging yields from quality testing at its Groundhog anthracite project, in British Columbia, Canada, and expects this to positively impact new pre-feasibility study.

Coal of Africa’s Makhado metallurgical coal project will start construction in 2H16 and is expected to take 26 months.

Kibo Mining has received results from Geotechnical Drill Programme for the Mbeya Definitive Mining Feasibility Study.

CoAL awards Optimisation Study and Front End Engineering and Design package to DRA Global’s South African company DRA Projects SA.

Aspire Mining has announced that the Nuurstei coal project in Mongolia has received proximate analysis from core samples taken from the Ekhgoviin Chuluu Joint Venture’s 2015 exploration programme.

Chinese industrial conglomerate, Qingdao Hengshun Zhongsheng Group (Hengshun), has signed an MoU with Coal of Africa to acquire a 34% stake in the Makhado coal project in South Africa.

The New South Wales Planning Assessment Commission has approved a five-year extension to extract coal at the Wongawilli coal mine.

The New South Wales Planning Assessment Commission has rejected Anglo American’s proposed Drayton South expansion project over fears over the impact it would have on two of the region’s horse studs.

The New South Wales Planning Assessment has approved the Mt Thorley-Warkworth extension project in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales.