Morupule South Coal Project, Botswana

The Morupule South Coal Project is located directly to the south of the Morupule Colliery, the only one currently operating in Botswana. The Morupule South project has a current Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant resource estimate of 2.45 billion tons of which 110 million tons are the measured category, 173 million tons in the indicated category and 2.167 million tons are inferred. A scoping study on the Morupule project has proved the economic viability of the project. Capital cost estimated for developing a 1.5 million-tonne-a-year operation are A$55.76 million for a contractor-operator model. The exact co-ordinates are currently not available however the approximate area of location is lat: -22.5109230; long: 27.0267883.