{"id":6299,"date":"2011-12-21T00:35:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-1-anglo-american-says-first-ore-shipped-from-kolomela\/"},"modified":"2011-12-21T00:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:35:43","slug":"update-1-anglo-american-says-first-ore-shipped-from-kolomela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-anglo-american-says-first-ore-shipped-from-kolomela\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Anglo American says first ore shipped from Kolomela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Dec 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Global miner Anglo American<br \/>\n has exported the first shipment from the $1 billion<br \/>\nKolomela iron ore mine in South Africa, one of its key growth<br \/>\nprojects, putting the mine ahead of schedule and on track to<br \/>\nachieve full production by 2013.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kolomela, one of the projects expected to drive organic<br \/>\nvolume growth for Anglo, has been commissioned five months ahead<br \/>\nof schedule and on budget, the miner said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kolomela, a 9-million tonne per year iron ore mine in the<br \/>\nNorthern Cape, is the third of four key operations to come<br \/>\nonline for Anglo, after the Barro Alto nickel project in Brazil<br \/>\nin March and the expansion of the Los Bronces copper mine in<br \/>\nChile in November. The fourth project in the pipeline is the<br \/>\ngiant Minas-Rio iron ore operation in Brazil, which is set to<br \/>\nbegin full production in the second half of 2013.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first shipment of 100,000 tonnes of Kolomela lump ore<br \/>\nleft the port of Saldanha on 19 December 2011,&#8221; Chris Griffith,<br \/>\nCEO of Anglo American&#8217;s Kumba Iron Ore business, said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The commissioning of the Kolomela project is in line with<br \/>\nour growth strategy of ramping our South African production up<br \/>\nto 70 million tonnes per year by 2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kolomela had been expected to deliver initial production at<br \/>\nthe end of the first half of 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kumba Iron Ore owns 74 percent of the Sishen, Thabazimbi and<br \/>\nKolomela mines.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Dec 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Global miner Anglo American has exported the first shipment from the $1 billion Kolomela iron ore mine in South Africa, one of its key growth projects, putting the mine ahead of schedule and on track to achieve full production by 2013. 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