When Menar acquired the Kangra operation in Driefontein in September 2018, it marked a new beginning in terms of the focus on health and safety at the mine. In June this year, the mine reached 2.77 million fatality-free production shifts, which equals more than nine years without a fatality.
Read MoreMining is known to be very disruptive to the local environment.
Read MoreCoal mining company Kangra’s initiative to recruit and upskill women has continued to gain momentum as 23 young women were recruited either as employees or trainees in the last two years.
Read MoreWere it not for South Africa’s infrastructure and rail constraints, the country’s export coal could have filled the global shortages. However, endless problems at South African ports, an inefficient railroad network, deteriorating road infrastructure and wanton destruction, crime, and vandalism, has for all intent and purposes killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.
Read MoreIt is becoming increasingly difficult for the European Union to shun Russia despite its invasion of the Ukraine. Russia provides the EU with more than 40% of its natural gas, more than a quarter of its oil imports and almost half of its coal.
Read MoreCoal mining company Kangra, a subsidiary of mining investment company Menar, is nearing the completion of its Udumo Adit housing relocation project, in Donkerhoek, Mpumalanga. Udumo shaft (previously known as Twyfelhoek mine) forms part of one of the planned shafts to access the Kusipongo resource that has a coal reserve of about 41.9-million tons which could extend the life of the mine by more than 20 years.
Read MoreCoal Mining company Kangra, a subsidiary of mining investment company Menar, is near completion on the construction of the Twyfelhoek Adit, which form part of the Kusipongo coal reserve.
Read MoreCoal mining company Kangra – a subsidiary of mining investment group Menar – started mining first coal from its new underground Udumo adit on February 9.
Read MoreThe company recently announced that the construction of the Twyfelhoek Adit (part of the Kusipongo coal reserve), which commenced 6 April 2021, is on track to be completed by mid-December 2021, with the first coal expected by the first quarter of 2022.
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