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- Oil & Gas Field7,055
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- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
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- Interconnector704
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Coal / Uranium Mine
Matla Coal Mine
18th-largest coal / uranium mine in South Africa of 123 · top 12% worldwide (#574 of 4,963)
- Operator
- Exxaro Resources Ltd
- Owner
- Exxaro Coal Mpumalanga Pty Ltd
- Status
- operating
- Mineral
- coal
- Output
- ~5.9 Mtpa
- Commissioned
- 1976
Comparable coal / uranium mines · South Africa · 123 ranked
- #1Grootegeluk Coal Mine
- #16Dalyshope Coal Project
- #17Iyanga Coal Mine Cluster
- #18Matla Coal Mine
- #19Shondoni Coal Mine
- #20North Block Complex
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Matla Coal Mine0 m · Coal / Uranium Mine
- 400 kV line2.5 km · Transmission Line
- Matla power station2.5 km · Power Plant · 3.6 GW · coal
- Matla Substation2.5 km · Substation / Converter
- Kriel Coal Mine4.3 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Kriel power station5.3 km · Power Plant · 3.0 GW · coal
- Welstand Coal Mine15 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Kendal power station25 km · Power Plant · 4.1 GW · coal
Methane observations · within 25 km
- 1,372 kg/hr2025-06-23 · 22 km
Satellite detections from Global Energy Monitor’s Global Methane Emitters Tracker, each an instantaneous rate on the date shown — not an annual total, and not a current reading. GMET attributes a plume to a type of infrastructure, not to a named facility: these were observed near this asset, which is not evidence they came from it.
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Coal Mine Tracker (GCMT) (CC BY 4.0)