Tata Steel and Riversdale Mining have announced coal quality progress results for the Benga Exploration License, near Tete in Mozambique. In November 2007, the two had signed a joint venture to develop a hard coking and thermal coal project at key coal exploration license held by Riversdale in Mozambique.
The quality of the hard coking coal, combined with a 1.9bn tons Inferred JORC Resource and low strip ratios, will make the Benga deposit a world class project and give Riversdale the opportunity to be a globally competitive coking coal producer.
Benga's estimated life of mine strip ratios at 4:1 are less than half of the current average strip ratios of 10:12 at leading Australian coking coal producers.
Laboratory wash ability analysis indicates that Benga deposit will produce premium hard coking coals, plus domestic and export thermal coals through beneficiation, the two companies said.
Further work is being undertaken in order to optimise the potential products from the Benga deposit. In particular, liberation studies and mining optimization will be undertaken to assess opportunities to increase coking coal yields and optimise the overall properties of the coal products.
Source: Indiainfoline
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