coal mines kwazulu natal
Although the earliest recorded discovery of coal in the KwaZuluNatal (KZN) area of South Africa was in 1838 in the area around Dundee, small scale mining only really began in 1865. By the early 1900s the region was one of the world''s largest coal producers, with more than 500,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) being produced from nineteen mines in KZN, mainly in the Dundee area of the Klip River