Interest in South Africa’s Waterberg Basin coal fields continues to grow. Although the area contains a large proportion of the country’s untapped coal reserves, its relatively isolated location, the lack of railway capacity and plentiful supplies of coal on the established Mpumalanga fields have thus far deterred development.
However, an increasing number of empowerment firms and other mining companies are investing in the region, forcing rail utility Transnet to consider new railway and rolling stock investment....
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