Mining Weekly reported that Eskrom has reached a confidential agreement with Xstrata and Glencore to ensure that the newly merged company doesn’t monopolize the coal market.
As quoted in the market report:
These conditions, Eskom argued, were necessary to ensure that the new coal-mining entity did not use its new market power in a way that led to insecurity of coal supply and a migration in prices to an export-parity level.
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