Coal mining in Mozambique, reaching mining's potential, top-quality digital publication

摘要

BRAZILIAN MINING MAJOR Vale's Moatize mine, in the Tete province of Mozambique, produced some four-million tons of coal last year, its second full year of operation. Of this total, about three-million tons was transported to the Port of Beira by around 2 000 trains along the Sena railway line. This coal was then exported, using 35 ships. Read on page 16 of this edition of Mining Weekly of Moatize Phase 1, Vale's first greenfield project outside Brazil, which has been developed at a cost of $1.88-billion, having a production capacity of 11-million tons a year and of Moatize Phase 2 doubling that to 22- million tons a year.