Looming project with Anglo in South Africa ? The discard dump...

Looming project with Anglo in South Africa ?

The discard dump expansion (Phase 2) will allow for airspace for the coarse residue material till 2022, and will assist in the facilitation of value generating projects that will decrease the environmental impact, namely in the briquetting of slimes residue and the retreating of coarse residue. The broader significance for Anglo American Thermal Coal will be to evaluate different technologies and methodologies to utilise the slimes compartments as potential reserves. Goedehoop has been identified as the pilot site with the anticipated briquetting of Western slimes compartment. Based on the estimation done by ATS in 2012, the Goedehoop Western Slimes compartment contains 6, 7 million tons of unprocessed slimes. The volumetric airspace limit at the Goedehoop South (Goedehoop Colliery) Discard facility slimes compartments are due to be reached in 2015 according to recent modelling done by Anglo Technical Services (ATS). The current LOM estimate is 2038 for Goedehoop South (Goedehoop Colliery). In association with environmental constraints this has led to the identification of remedial projects to alleviate this apparent bottleneck, namely the briquetting Plant. The current volumetric air space of the Goedehoop slimes dam will reach its capacity by 2015, thereby impacting the Goedehoop LOM planning which is anticipated to run until 2038. This has therefore resulted in value generating projects that will decrease the environmental impact to be considered.Construction of listed activities applied for, including the expansion of the South Discard Dump Facility as well as the construction of two Retreat plants a briquetting plant, railway line expansion and the construction of a conveyor belt.


Source: Draft Scoping Report: Anglo Operations Limited - Goedehoop Coiliery's Discarddump Expansion,Discard Retreat Plant, Elders Retreat Plant and Briquetting Plant Project, 06/06//2013