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New coal discovery in Zambia
Posted by Editor on May 13, 2012 in Business · 0 Comments
(MENAFN – ProactiveInvestors – Australia) African Energy Resources (ASX: AFR) is adding to its African coal inventory with a new discovery at the Sinazongwe prospect in Zambia close to existing coal mines.

Multiple coal seams were intersected in all of the completed core holes and, importantly, these coal seams are open along strike and down dip.

Raw coal calorific values returned ranged from 10 to 26 megajoules per kilogram.

Highlighting the potential for coking coal properties, there was an extensive presence of vitrinite bands.

In mid-2011, reconnaissance exploration identified coal bearing sediments with a strike length of about 10 kilometres.

These sediments are mapped by a geological survey as the extension of the stratigraphy that hosts the Maamba Colliery and the Collum Coal Mine, Zambia’s only producing coal deposits.