{"id":169497,"date":"2017-04-10T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T08:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=169497"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T08:14:41","slug":"anglo-american-offloads-eskom-linked-coal-operations-for-r2-3-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/169497\/anglo-american-offloads-eskom-linked-coal-operations-for-r2-3-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo American offloads Eskom-linked coal operations for R2.3 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo American has announced the sale of its Eskom-tied thermal coal operations to Seriti Resources, a company majority owned by historically disadvantaged South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>The sale will see Anglo net R2.3 billion for the Eskom-linked domestic thermal coal operations which consist of the New Vaal, New Denmark and Kriel collieries, along with four closed collieries.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction will result in Seriti becoming the second largest provider of thermal coal to Eskom, supplying almost a quarter of Eskom\u2019s current annual coal requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Anglo American, chief executive, Mark Cutifani, said: \u201cThis transaction forms part of our ongoing commitment to reshape and upgrade our global asset portfolio, recognising appropriate value and further demonstrating Anglo American&#8217;s longstanding support for the development and sustainability of South Africa&#8217;s mining industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/169361\/sas-r1-trillion-nuclear-plans-kick-off-in-june-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">SA\u2019s R1 trillion nuclear plans kick off in June: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo American has announced the sale of its Eskom-tied thermal coal operations to Seriti Resources, a company majority owned by historically disadvantaged South Africans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":90912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[25,1164,11869],"class_list":["post-169497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-seriti-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169497"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169529,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169497\/revisions\/169529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}