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Seven Myths

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.

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New adits extend life at Kangra

Were 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.

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Udumo Adit housing relocation project 80% complete

Coal 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.

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