Proposed Koudelager Colliery

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Proposed Koudelager Colliery

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CaseHeader

Status:

Closed (Approved)

HeritageAuthority(s):

Amafa

Case Type:

Development

Development Type:

Mining

ProposalDescription:

Development of two mining platforms and two access roads for the Koudelager Colliery, Vryheid, KwaZUlu-Natal

Expanded_Motivation:

The Koudelager Reserve is located in the Vryheid coal field some 50 Km east of Vryheid in Northern KwaZulu Natal ... The deposit occurs on Portion 1 of the farm Koudelager 115. The farm forms part of a larger deposit which was prospected by Natal Anthracite Colliery in the late 1970’s. The reserve block extends onto the adjacent Remainder of Koudelager 115 and Leeuw Mining & Exploration (Pty.) Ltd. has a current mining licence on the property. In the past very small scale mining has taken place on farms surrounding Koudelager from adits along the seam outcrop, while slightly larger operations have been sustained on Spitzkop. Mining activity on Koudelager itself is confined to prospecting adits that have been rehabilitated. The area is well served by provincial and district roads with the main Vryheid - Nongoma road passing about 3Km to the north of the reserve. The district road joins the reserve to this road. The surface rights of the property are held by the Kewulane Community Trust and certain areas have been leased to Mondi for forestry operations. The property is extensively used for Wattle and Blue Gum plantations. Keaton Energy / LME own and operate the Leeuw Vaalkrantz Colliery (LVC) which is situated approximately 34Km by road from the Koudelager reserve and the coal that is mined at Koudelager will transported by road to the washing plant at LVC for processing. It is envisaged that a conventional drill and blast bord and pillar mining method will be employed, and, due to the seam thickness, the reserves will be mined with scrapers. Access to the underground workings on each of the two seams that are to be mined will be via 4 adits into a highwall established from each seam outcrop. New access roads will be constructed to each of the two adit platforms from the nearby district road. Minimal surface infrastructure will be developed on the mine, it will be limited to portable, container size, structures adapted as offices, store, workshop, lamp-room, and ablution block. A stacker conveyor will be erected to temporarily stockpile coal conveyed from underground on the adit platform, from where it will be loaded into road trucks for haulage to the processing plant at LVC. The only other surface infrastructure will involve the excavation of clean surface water cut-off drains up-grade of the adit platforms and two, small, lined pollution control dams as part of the pollution control measures on the mine.