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New Clydesdale Colliery produces its first opencast coal

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Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia
 
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South Africa-focused coal miner Universal Coal has produced the first run-of-mine coal from its New Clydesdale Colliery (NCC) opencast development. Universal said on Wednesday that opencast mining would ramp up over the next quarter, reaching steady state in the second half of 2017 and complementing the underground coal currently being mined from three underground sections at the adjacent Diepspruit shaft.
 
 
 
 
 

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