New discoveries of coal in Mozambique — Development of the coal resource estimation methodology for International Resource Reporting Standards

Hatton, William; Fardell, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.coal.2011.02.010

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“…The first geological works in Tete referred to the studies of 14 coal occurrence, and were undertaken in 1859 by Richard Thornton, a geologist on the Zambezi expedition under Dr David Livingstone and Guyot (Hatton and Fardell, 2011). Coal has been mined intermittently in Moatize since the 1930s, but by the turn of the 21 st century, mining in the region was confined to villagers who fired bricks using coal from the abandoned mines of Carbomoç, Mozambique's now defunct state-owned coal corporation, and to young men called garimpeiros who panned for gold in nearby streams (Gerety, 2013).…”

Section: The Coal Mega-projects In Tetementioning

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Mining and extractive urbanism: Postdevelopment in a Mozambican boomtown

Kirshner

Power

2015

Geoforum

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractMozambique has attracted international attention in recent years following the discovery of huge reserves of coal and gas deposits. A major focus of Mozambique's extractives boom is the province of Tete, once a remote outpost but now a hub of power generation for the southern African region and an emerging centre of global investment in coal extraction. Some of the world's largest mining firms from both established and emerging economies have descended on Tete, investing billions of dollars in developing concessions to extract some of the world's largest untapped coal reserves with wide-ranging implications for the region's political economy and effecting significant shifts in relations between state, capital and territorial control. At the urban scale, Tete city and its expanding periphery are increasingly characterized by enclaves and spaces of enclosure, as some groups benefit from and are integrated into global circuits of production while others suffer displacement and dispossession. In seeking to trace the emergence of Tete's resource economy, the paper contends that three distinctive spatialities have resulted from these developments, including the infrastructure networks being constructed around the extractive industries, the enclave spaces arising from the coal boom (and the particular labour geographies that shape them) and the new and distinctive urban geographies that are the product of Tete's rapid urbanisation. The paper seeks to assess the impacts, stakes and challenges linked to investments in extractive activities and looks at how the costs and risks are being differentially distributed within and between the affected communities.

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Section: The Coal Mega-projects In Tetementioning

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Mining and extractive urbanism: Postdevelopment in a Mozambican boomtown

Kirshner

Power

2015

Geoforum

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“…The (Hatton and Fardell, 2012). Simplified geology map of the Tete province (northwest Mozambique) and Zambezi basin indicating the position of the study area (adapted from Fernandes et al, 2015).…”

Section: Physiography and Climatementioning

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“…On a local scale, the Zambezi Basin is divided into three sub-basins (Hatton and Fardell, 2012), and the study site is located within the easternmost Moatize-Minjova sub-basin. The Moatize-Minjova sub-basin trends NW-SE, and the Karoo Supergroup rocks unconformably overlie the Basement formations and is in fault-bounded contact to the NW and SE of the basin (Fernandes et al, 2015;Vasconcelos et al, 2014).…”

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Hydrogeological characterisation of regional faults and dolerite dykes in the Precambrian Basement and Karoo Supergroup (Tete Province, Mozambique)

Minnaar

Dippenaar

2019

South African Journal of Geology

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Faults and dolerite dykes within Basement- and Karoo-aquifers in northern Mozambique may increase groundwater occurrence but may also be barriers to groundwater flow. Should observation boreholes drilled into regional and local faults as well as dykes show a response to aquifer testing, it would be deduced that these hydrogeological discontinuities are not barriers to groundwater flow. The approach adopted for this study included a sequential process involving data acquisition through a hydrogeological fieldwork programme consisting of geophysical surveys, borehole drilling, aquifer testing, and groundwater level monitoring. The Zambezi Border and geological contact faults were characterised by high variability in hydraulic properties. Aquifer testing resulted in drawdown in observation boreholes as well as a reduction in piezometric surface in the installed vibrating wire piezometers located in different aquifer units, indicating the Zambezi Border- and geological contact-faults were not barriers to groundwater flow. Not all the northwest-southeast trending dykes acted as barriers to groundwater flow, as there were discreet intervals with relatively high permeability present.

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“…2a) and also due to the fact that the occurrence of coking coal has been established in different parts of the basin. Hatton and Fardell (2012) reviewed the geology of coal occurrences in Mozambique and proposed exploration methodologies for international resource reporting standards. Lachelt (2004) presented a succinct account of coal deposits in Mozambique.…”

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Geology of Barcode type coking coal seams, Mecondezi sub-basin, Moatize Coalfield, Mozambique

Lakshminarayana¹

2015

International Journal of Coal Geology

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New discoveries of coal in Mozambique — Development of the coal resource estimation methodology for International Resource Reporting Standards

Cited by 41 publications

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Mining and extractive urbanism: Postdevelopment in a Mozambican boomtown

Mining and extractive urbanism: Postdevelopment in a Mozambican boomtown

Hydrogeological characterisation of regional faults and dolerite dykes in the Precambrian Basement and Karoo Supergroup (Tete Province, Mozambique)

Geology of Barcode type coking coal seams, Mecondezi sub-basin, Moatize Coalfield, Mozambique

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