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Keaton Energy Holdings Limited (Keaton Energy) is a coal mining and development company, with its shares listed on the main board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
Our strategy is to grow annual production to 5Mt in the medium-term through greenfields exploration and mine development and through mergers and acquisitions, and to expand our product offering, to both domestic and export markets.
- Fact sheet, March 2012 (PDF - 852KB)
- Corporate video, including JSE listing footage (2:03 minutes)
0.00%Operating collieries
Vaalkrantz
The Vaalkrantz Anthracite Colliery is near Vryheid in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province and has been in production since 2003. Support provided by Keaton Energy during the acquisition of a controlling interest in LME has resulted in marked operational improvements at the colliery.
Vanggatfontein
The Vanggatfontein Project (formerly known as the Delmas Project) boasts a Coal Resource of 163.4 million tonnes. The mining right is held by Keaton Energy’s 74% subsidiary, Keaton Mining (Pty) Limited and was granted in June 2009.
Development projects
Sterkfontein
Keaton Energy’s Sterkfontein Project, in the Bethal district of the Highveld Coalfield in Gauteng, covers a total area of 7 280 hectares, over which a 69Mt coal resource has been declared.
Braakfontein
The Braakfontein Thermal Coal Project, an important developmental component of the LME acquisition, is near Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal.
Koudelager
Koudelager is expected to provide future run-of-mine anthracite supply to the existing Vaalkrantz plant.
Exploration pipeline
Keaton Energy is awaiting the granting and/or execution of three prospecting rights for relatively small properties contiguous to the Vanggatfontein Colliery and the Sterkfontein Project.
Latest news and events
A new force in anthracite production
Keaton Energy is a coal mining and development company, now operating the Vaalkrantz Colliery near Vryheid.
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Substantial across-the-board production increases in FY2012
11 April 2012
Keaton Energy, in a production update released today, reports substantial across-the-board production increases from its South African operations in the financial year ended 31 March 2012.
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Keaton Energy seeks to expand portfolio, targets 5Mt/y
29 March 2012
[miningweekly.co.za] -- With two collieries now in production, Keaton Energy MD Paul Miller said that the JSE-listed company would move “aggressively” to also bring on line its Koudelager and Braakfontein projects.
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Keaton Energy seeks to expand portfolio, targets 5Mt/y
29 March 2012
[miningmx.com] -- COAL junior Keaton Energy has said it is on the lookout for new assets, seeking acquisitions to complement the company’s recent takeover of Leeuw Mining and Exploration and eventually lift output to become a mid-tier 5 million tonnes per annum producer.
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Leeuw Mining deal presents good mix
28 March 2012
[businesslive.co.za] -- Exploration and mining company, Keaton Energy says plans to absorb into its portfolio the recently acquired assets, Leeuw Mining & Exploration, continues apace.
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Capital injection, other measures spur Leeuw Mining & Exploration absorption into Keaton Energy ‘fold’
28 March 2012
Keaton Energy continues apace with plans for absorbing into its portfolio the assets of recently acquired Leeuw Mining & Exploration (Pty) Limited (LME), says Keaton Managing Director Paul Miller.
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LME transaction implemented, Keaton Energy operational management team strengthened
6 January 2012
Keaton Energy today announced implementation of the transaction in terms of which it acquires a 74% interest in Leeuw Mining and Exploration (Pty) Limited (LME).
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Financial results
Annual report 2011
(PDF - 896KB)
2 December 2011
22 June 2011
Preliminary summarised audited group results for the year ended 31 March 2011 (PDF - 653KB)
