Botswana exports first coal from Masama mine to South Africa

[John Ashworth]

Minergy exports first coal from Masama mine to South Africa

Minergy, a coal mining and trading company, has exported the first coal from its wholly-owned Masama coal mine in Botswana by rail to South Africa.

The coal was loaded onto trucks and transported 60km to the rail siding at Tshele Hills and it was the first of three trains bound for an industrial client in the cement sector in South Africa.

The company said that the first train comprises 50 wagons transporting a total of nearly 2,650 tonnes, with each wagon loaded with approximately 53 tonnes of coal product...