Situated 30km west of Witbank in the Ogies District of the Mpumalanga province, South Africa, Klipspruit Colliery is an opencast mine using dragline, as well as truck and shovel operations, to extract coal. Commencing operations in 2003, Klipspruit Colliery has a production capacity of 7.8 million tonnes per annum with a projected life of 30 years. Coal from Klipspruit Colliery is transported 34 km to the Rietspruit Wash Plant where the export coal is beneficiated and loaded onto trains.