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COVER STORY
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MODERN MINING
October 2015
F
ormed in 1972, MCC is a division
of the plus R9-billion-a-year Eqstra
group and accounted for approxi-
mately 42 % of Eqstra’s revenues
in FY 2015. While it ranks as one
of the biggest opencast mining contractors in
South Africa, over the past several years it
has not performed to its full potential. Colling
was appointed as CEO at the beginning of this
year, his brief being to reinvigorate the opera-
tion. While he acknowledges that there is still
much work to be done, he points out that MCC
is now starting to operate very efficiently. “We
don’t have a single loss-making contract on
our books and for FY2015 our operating profit
was R308 million, which was nearly 29 % up
on the previous year.”
One of the biggest problems facing all min-
ing contractors currently is standing machines.
“We have about 6 % of our asset base unutilised
MCC awarded R3,6 billion
Justin Colling (Left), CEO of MCC, pictured with Heine van Niekerk (centre) and Pieter Wiese,
both directors of Delta Mining Corporation, at MCC’s Midrand premises.
MCC Contract Mining & Plant Rental (MCC) has been appointed as the mining contractor for the new
Nsele opencast coal mine in Mpumalanga and is expecting to move onto site shortly. According to
Justin Colling, CEO of MCC, the first five years of the contract are likely to represent R3,6 billion worth
of turnover for the company. As he says, “Nsele is a very welcome addition to our order book given
the extremely tight conditions in the mining industry at present.”
Modern Mining
recently spoke to
Colling and Heine van Niekerk, a Director of Nsele’s owner, Delta Mining Corporation (DMC), to learn
more about the mine, its scale and the scope of MCC’s involvement.