Midwest Coal Resource Ltd (“Midwest”) is a privately owned coal exploration and development company with a portfolio of coal tenements in the Moatize basin of Mozambique. Midwest currently holds 2 development and 2 exploration coal assets located in the Tete region, Mozambique. Midwest has completed drilling of 100 boreholes totalling to 32,000 metres which include open hole, core and large dia holes. Over 11,580 coal samples have been generated and analyzed for coking and thermal properties. Midwest has a JORC resource report certified by Behre Dolbear, a top global mining consultant.

Midwest has a large coking and thermal coal resource base which is a near-term low cost open-cut coal mining operation. The deposit has very large coal seams (up to ~210m thick). Its products comprise of coking coal and export thermal coal, but the initial 15 years the product is mostly Coking Coal.

Midwest has a very strong technical team apart from its strong management team for its Coal Division. Midwest’s exploration division is headed by Dr. G. Lakshminarayana, who has over 32 years of experience in mineral exploration & basin analysis in various geological terrains in India, Indonesia, Bhutan , Madagascar, Vietnam and Mozambique. He is a Member &CP of Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (The AusIMM) & JORC Competent Person (CP). He was the former Director of (coal) Geological Survey of India (GSI). Midwest has a strong team of mining engineers such as Mr. Aja Babu, who has vast experience in Open cast and Under Ground coal mining. He served in Singareni Coal Collieries for a long time as senior mining executive engaged in coal mining. Apart from Midwest’s inhouse experts, Midwest has several knowledge partners and consults top global consultants in the areas of coal mining, processing, infrastructure feasibility studies, environment studies, fund raising etc. Midwest’s Mozambican operation employs over 200 people.

•   Project enjoys attractive project economics due to its large and quality resource base which is devoid of dykes and sills, flat seams and shallow resource with a mix of high quality coking and thermal coal grades.
•   The scale of the operation will justify any large infrastructure investment including rail, road or pipeline.
•   The Project is located strategically in the coking coal basin in Mozambique within close proximity to existing road and rail infrastructure which link to the Port of Beira. Mozambican coal is positioned to service India’s ballooning steel market and energy demand. Its neighbouring tenements include Coal India, Rio Tinto’s Benga and Zambezi projects, Vale’s Moatize project and Minas de Revuboe.
•   Project is a near term mining operation. Midwest is poised to begin coal mining on a commercial scale in early 2015 and is looking to open a trial pit in 2014.
•   The project will benefit from a very focused management team who aspire to build one of the best teams in coal mining industry and who follow the best corporate governance practices.

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