Proposed Discard Facility at the Zibulo Colliery Opencast Operation

Anglo American Inyosi Coal (Pty) Ltd (AAIC) proposes to develop a discard facility at its opencast operations at Zibulo Colliery, situated near Ogies in the Mpumalanga Province. Zibulo Colliery produces an annual eight million run of mine (ROM) tonnes of export thermal coal, with seven million tonnes per annum coming from its underground sections and the remaining one million tonnes from its opencast pit. Underground operations incorporate bord and pillar continuous miner methods while the contractor-run opencast pit utilises the truck and shovel mining method.