TEX reported that while new projects to develop manganese mines in Kalahari district of South Africa are being proceeded, the Tshipi manganese mine, as a promising mine in these new projects, said recently that, in addition to Port Elizabeth port, they are considering to utilize Durban port for shipments of manganese ore, Steelguru reports.
Inland transportation will be carried out by railway and trucks for the time being but Transnet, national railway corporation of South Africa, is moving to reinforce the facilities to transport cargoes by railway wagons.
Transnet has intended to strengthen Durban port as the second largest port to ship manganese ore, following PE port, and already launched to expand and to reform part of the port facilities. Its concrete work prepares well and reinforces Rotary Tippler, which is able to discharge manganese ore from wagons and to store manganese ore at yards. Also, Transnet is going to improve and to strengthen the capacity for inland transportation of cargoes by railway and the system to allocate numbers of wagons on a long run, which has been already applied to inland transportation by railway wagons for PE port, is being considered by Transnet to be applied to railway transportation for Durban port through contracts with customers.
While the Tshipi manganese mine already announced to ship manganese ore from Durban port as mentioned above, this manganese mine has been evaluated as a promising mine and is scheduled to commence new production of manganese ore from 2013 (on a scale of 2,000,000 tonnes per year). The owners of this manganese project are Ntsimbintle Mining (Proprietary) Limited, having acquired 50.1% of interest, and Jupiter Mines Limited, having acquired 49.9% of interest. OM Holdings Limited, which has been based on Singapore and is producers of manganese ore and manganese ferroalloys, has acquired 26% of interest in this manganese project through Ntsimbintle Mining. OM Holdings mentioned the plan to utilize the facilities at Durban port in their settlement of accounts for January to March quarter of 2011.
The Tshipi manganese project has owned two manganese mines of Tshipi Borwa and Tshipi Bokone and is scheduled to develop firstly Tshipi Borwa. This project has finally obtained in July to September quarter of 2010 the mining right and commenced to proceed development of Tshipi Borwa mine from March of 2011. Developments included progression of the final design and associated surface infrastructure including the crushing and screening plant, the load cut station and the rail siding. Final contracts with major suppliers are being concluded towards the end of this quarter.
The shipments of manganese ore from Durban port are being implemented from several years ago, after having brought in cargoes by trucks, and this arrangement has been utilized by many of South African manganese mines as a countermeasure to resolve the saturation of loading capacity at PE port, to where cargoes of manganese ore are being transported from Kalahari and Sishen districts.
Since it has been clearly known at present that Transnet is now moving to improve and to reinforce the capacity for railway transportation, four major manganese mines have been wrestling with new manganese projects and have aimed to materialize these new projects in the course of 2011 to 2013. This aspect of new manganese mines is thought to be good news for the parties concerned.
Inland transportation will be carried out by railway and trucks for the time being but Transnet, national railway corporation of South Africa, is moving to reinforce the facilities to transport cargoes by railway wagons.
Transnet has intended to strengthen Durban port as the second largest port to ship manganese ore, following PE port, and already launched to expand and to reform part of the port facilities. Its concrete work prepares well and reinforces Rotary Tippler, which is able to discharge manganese ore from wagons and to store manganese ore at yards. Also, Transnet is going to improve and to strengthen the capacity for inland transportation of cargoes by railway and the system to allocate numbers of wagons on a long run, which has been already applied to inland transportation by railway wagons for PE port, is being considered by Transnet to be applied to railway transportation for Durban port through contracts with customers.
While the Tshipi manganese mine already announced to ship manganese ore from Durban port as mentioned above, this manganese mine has been evaluated as a promising mine and is scheduled to commence new production of manganese ore from 2013 (on a scale of 2,000,000 tonnes per year). The owners of this manganese project are Ntsimbintle Mining (Proprietary) Limited, having acquired 50.1% of interest, and Jupiter Mines Limited, having acquired 49.9% of interest. OM Holdings Limited, which has been based on Singapore and is producers of manganese ore and manganese ferroalloys, has acquired 26% of interest in this manganese project through Ntsimbintle Mining. OM Holdings mentioned the plan to utilize the facilities at Durban port in their settlement of accounts for January to March quarter of 2011.
The Tshipi manganese project has owned two manganese mines of Tshipi Borwa and Tshipi Bokone and is scheduled to develop firstly Tshipi Borwa. This project has finally obtained in July to September quarter of 2010 the mining right and commenced to proceed development of Tshipi Borwa mine from March of 2011. Developments included progression of the final design and associated surface infrastructure including the crushing and screening plant, the load cut station and the rail siding. Final contracts with major suppliers are being concluded towards the end of this quarter.
The shipments of manganese ore from Durban port are being implemented from several years ago, after having brought in cargoes by trucks, and this arrangement has been utilized by many of South African manganese mines as a countermeasure to resolve the saturation of loading capacity at PE port, to where cargoes of manganese ore are being transported from Kalahari and Sishen districts.
Since it has been clearly known at present that Transnet is now moving to improve and to reinforce the capacity for railway transportation, four major manganese mines have been wrestling with new manganese projects and have aimed to materialize these new projects in the course of 2011 to 2013. This aspect of new manganese mines is thought to be good news for the parties concerned.