{"id":450707,"date":"2021-11-20T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450707"},"modified":"2021-11-20T10:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T05:26:50","slug":"jspl-plans-to-start-building-botswana-mine-in-2022-to-produce-4-5-mt-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jspl-plans-to-start-building-botswana-mine-in-2022-to-produce-4-5-mt-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"JSPL plans to start building Botswana mine in 2022, to produce 4.5 MT coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GABORONE (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s Jindal Steel &amp; Power Limited (JSPL) will start building a coal mine in Botswana&#8217;s southeastern Mmamabula coalfields in 2022, aiming to supply the export market and a planned coal power plant, a company official said. <\/p>\n<p>The Indian industrial giant aims for the mine to produce 4.5 million tonnes of coal per year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Work will start next year and develop in phases over two to three years. Regional demand is increasing and the South African market has appetite for Botswana coal,&#8221; Jindal Botswana country head Neeraj Saxena told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the global shift from coal, Botswana is pushing ahead with developing its estimated 212 billion tonnes of coal resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GABORONE (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s Jindal Steel &amp; Power Limited (JSPL) will start building a coal mine in Botswana&#8217;s southeastern Mmamabula coalfields in 2022, aiming to supply the export market and a planned coal power plant, a company official said. The Indian industrial giant aims for the mine to produce 4.5 million tonnes of coal per year. &#8220;Work will start next year and develop in phases over two to three years. Regional demand is increasing and the South African market has appetite for Botswana coal,&#8221; Jindal Botswana country head Neeraj Saxena told Reuters. Despite the global shift from coal, Botswana is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}