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Gasification could reinvigorate coal mining – Mast-Ingle

Coal mining in Africa and in South Africa in particular could provide the key to powering up growth on the continent if the opportunity presented by recent developments in underground-coal-to-gas (UCG) technology are seized and implemented. Project management consultant and USG leader Julian Mast-Ingle points out that USG would make available an additional 45-billion tons of presently unminable coal in South Africa alone, in a process that is safe.