Coal Of Africa To Pay US$75 Million for Rio Tinto's Chapudi Coal Project, Other Coal Properties
29 November 2010 - 10:15AM
Dow Jones News
Coal of Africa Ltd. (CZA.AU) said Monday it will buy the Chapudi
coal project and other South African assets off Rio Tinto Ltd.
(RIO) in a US$75 million deal that will increase the miner's coal
resource by 1.04 billion tons.
Coal of Africa said the acquisition would make it the dominant
landholder in the Soutpansberg Basin, South Africa's main source of
the coking coal used in steelmaking.
Major diversified miners have been re-examining their South
African assets against a backdrop of rising energy costs in the
country and a sale of Rio Tinto's local coal mines had long been
expected.
Coal of Africa said that 90 million tons of the coal resource
was in the most-reliable measured category, with 220 million tons
of indicated resources and 730 million tons of least-reliable
inferred coal.
"The properties being acquired significantly extend the scale
and scope of Coal of Africa's existing Voorburg and Jutland coal
projects," Coal of Africa said in a statement. "Coal of Africa's
working knowledge of this acreage, which has been established
during its period of ownership, exploration and resource
delineation of Makhado, will aid in further exploring the
contiguous acreage which it has now acquired."
Coal of Africa will pay US$45 million in cash on completion of
the sale, with US$30 million dependent on grant of mining rights or
fulfilment of conditions.
-By David Fickling, Dow Jones Newswires; +61 2 8272 4689;
david.fickling@dowjones.com
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