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Coal / Uranium Mine
Morupule Coal Mine
3rd-largest coal / uranium mine in Botswana of 6 · top 25% worldwide (#1,227 of 4,963)
- Operator
- Minerals Development Company Botswana Pty Ltd
- Owner
- Minerals Development Company Botswana
- Status
- operating
- Mineral
- coal
- Output
- ~2.7 Mtpa
- Commissioned
- 1973
Comparable coal / uranium mines · Botswana · 6 ranked
- #1Jindal Mmamabula Coal Mine
- #2Morupule Coal Mine
- #3Morupule Coal Mine
- #4Sese Coal Mine
- #5Mmamabula Coal Mine
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Morupule Coal Mine0 m · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Morupule A Power Station1.4 km · Power Plant · 132 MW · coal
- Morupule B power station2.6 km · Power Plant · 600 MW · coal
- New Morupule power station3.4 km · Power Plant · 615 MW · coal
Methane observations · within 25 km
- 2,232 kg/hr · coal mine2023-06-30 · 3.6 km
- 1,825 kg/hr · coal mine2023-05-25 · 3.7 km
- 1,783 kg/hr · coal mine2024-03-01 · 3.7 km
- 1,706 kg/hr · coal mine2023-09-24 · 3.7 km
- 1,169 kg/hr · coal mine2023-09-03 · 3.7 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)