It is reported that the diversified mining company African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is looking to upgrade its private rail siding from 60 t to 100 t rail wagons so that it can transport manganese ore to the Port of Saldanha in a much more efficient way.
Currently, the private rail siding at the Black Rock mine in the Northern Cape can only take a maximum of a 60 t train wagon.
ARM, through Assmang, which is currently exporting about two-million tonnes of manganese ore through Saldanha and two-million tonnes through Port Elizabeth, is targeting the export of five-million tonnes through the upgrade.
“If you just do that maths, from a 60 t to a 100 t wagon, we’re get very close to our five-million tonnes,“ said ARM Ferrous CE Andre Joubert in response to questions at ARM’s presentation of record financial year 2021 results.