Otmane El Rhazi : Production up at Glencore’s South African coal mines

Otmane El Rhazi from Mining Weekly | Ferrous Metals Home.

Production from Glencore’s the South African thermal coal mines was 10% higher in the three months to end March. The London-, Hong Kong- and Johannesburg-listed diversified mining and marketing company, headed by CEO Ivan Glasenberg, said on Tuesday that the ramp up of its newly commissioned Tweefontein Optimisation and Wonderfontein thermal coal projects in Mpumalanga had more than offset the closure of certain high cost operations, taking total first-quarter output to the 10%-higher 11.4-million tonnes.