Holfontein coal prospect

This article is part of the Global Coal Mine Tracker, a project of Global Energy Monitor.

Download full dataset

Report an error

Sub-articles:

Global coal mines Coal mines in China Coal mines in India Coal mines in the United States Coal mines in Australia Coal mines in Russia Coal mines in Indonesia

Related-articles:

Largest coal mines in the world Coal mine impacts from Covid-19 Environmental issues of coal Coal mining Coal reserves Coal terminals

The Holfontein coal project is a proposed mine site in the Witbank Coalfield in South Africa. The owners of the deposit, Coal of Africa, sold the rights in 2017. There have been no updates on future development in the area and the project is likely shelved.

Location

The map below shows the approximate location of the project.

Loading map...

{"type":"HYBRID","minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","width":"600px","height":"500px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"visitedicon":"","wmsoverlay":false,"zoom":11,"layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview","rotate"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"resizable":false,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"cluster":false,"clustergridsize":60,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clusteraveragecenter":true,"clusterminsize":2,"imageoverlays":[],"kml":[],"gkml":[],"searchmarkers":"","fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":false,"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":-26.460061,"lon":29.184839,"icon":""}]}

Background

On its website, Coal of Africa Limited states that "Holfontein is located near the middle of Sasol’s Secunda coal production area. It has remained undeveloped due to interpreted geological complexity."

In CoAL's 2017 Annual Report, they announced they had sold the rights to the Holfontein thermal coal project in 2017, which they had been trying to offload since at least 2014.

Project Details

• Owner: TBD
• Parent company:
• Location: Located near Secunda in the Gert Sibande District Municipality in the Mpumalanga province.
• GPS coordinates: -26.460061, 29.184839 (approximate)
• Mine status: Shelved
• Start year:
• Mineable reserves:
• Coal type: Thermal
• Mine size:
• Mine type: Underground
• Production:
• Additional proposed production:
• Equipment:
• Number of employees: 685 (expected)

Articles and resources

Related GEM.wiki articles

• South Africa and coal