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Universal secures exports from Richard's Bay

UNIVERSAL Coal has secured its first export allocation at South Africa's Richards Bay Coal terminal.

Staff Reporter
Universal secures exports from Richard's Bay

The Australian Securities Exchange-listed company’s Kangala mine in the Witbank coalfields of South Africa is being built and is slated to begin production in April 2014.

Kangala is Universal’s first operation. It is a domestic thermal coal operation supplying coal primarily to state utility, Eskom.

On top of the company’s domestic orders for 2 million tonnes per annum, it will export 51,000tpa through the Richards Bay Coal Terminal entitlement scheme for an initial three-year period.

The entitlement scheme is for emerging exporters such as Universal and was approved following an application to the South African Department of Mineral Resources.

It is all systems go for the junior company. It has locked in both its export allocation and the eight-year coal supply agreement with Eskom.

Universal business development director Shammy Luvhengo said securing the initial export entitlement is an important milestone for the company.

“It will give us direct access to thermal coal markets, and also establishes a platform from which to expand our allocation to accommodate increasing exports from Kangala and from the proposed Roodekop and Brakfontein mines,” Luvhengo said.

Universal’s coal assets are all located in South Africa.

The company has three thermal exploration coal projects in the Witbank coalfields in Mpumalanga Province and two exploration coking coal projects in Limpopo Province.

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