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Colombia
Cerrejon Mine

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 Location:
55 km SW from Maicao, Colombia

  Regional Office:
Calle 100 No. 19-54
Bogotá
Colombia
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Wash plant
  • Crush & Screen plant
  • CHPP
Mine Life13 years (as of Jan 1, 2021)
In June 2021, BHP announced the signing of a Sale and Purchase Agreement to divest our 33.3 per cent interest in Cerrejón for US$294 million cash consideration. Subject to the satisfaction of customary competition and regulatory requirements, this is expected to complete in the second half of FY2022.

Cerrejón one of the world’s largest open-cut energy coal mines, located in the La Guajira province of Colombia. Cerrejón owns integrated rail and port facilities.
Latest NewsGlencore completes acquisition of Cerrejón     January 11, 2022


Owners

Source:
CompanyInterestOwnership
Glencore plc. 100 % Indirect
Carbones del Cerrejon Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
January 11, 2022 - Glencore refers to its announcement of 28 June 2021, in which it announced its intention to acquire Anglo American’s and BHP’s respective 33.3% interests in Cerrejón. Following receipt of the relevant regulatory approvals, the transaction has been completed.

Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:

This complex deposit controlled by tectonic features associated to the Cerrejón and Ranchería thrust faults and Tabaco folding zone. The deposit is limited to the north by the Oca fault, to the southeast by the Cerrejón thrust fault and to the northwest by an abrupt topographic change due to the occurrence of calcareous rocks of the Manantial Formation. In addition, there are strike-slip faults, which split the deposit into blocks, maintaining its stratigraphic continuity.

The Cesar–Ranchería Basin mainly consists of a sedimentary succession of Paleocene age and unconsolidated recent deposits. The Cerrejón Formation (Upper Paleocene) is approximately 900 m in thickness and forms part of the Triassic to mid-Miocene sequence of sediments that filled a regional basin in the northern part of South America (extending eastwards to Los Llanos Basin in Venezuela). The coal-bearing sequence forms part of this sedimentary unit, which consists of shales, sandy mudstones, grey sandstones and coal, with notable absence of a conglomeratic siliciclastic succession. Coal seams of economic interest are actually in exploitation, being more or less regularly distributed and present variable thickness.

The Cerrejón Formation has been divided into three groups (lower, middle, and upper) based on the thickness and distribution of the coal beds. Overall coal bed thickness averages 3 m and ranges from 0.7 to 10 m (Weaver, 1993), although the thickest coal beds (1.4 to 10 m) is in the upper part of this sedimentary sequence.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

Cerrejón’s coal assets consist of an open-cut mine with several pits. Overburden is removed after blasting, using truck and shovel. Coal is then extracted using excavators or loaders and loaded onto trucks to be taken to stockpiles.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Wash plant
  • Crush & Screen plant
  • CHPP

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Summary:

Coal from stockpiles is crushed, of which a certain portion is washed and processed through the coal preparation plant. Export coal is transported to the port via a 150-kilometre railway.

Open-cut Produces a medium rank bituminous thermal coal (non-coking, suitable for the export market).

Beneficiation facilities: crushing plant with capacity in excess of 40 Mtpa and washing plant Nominal capacity in excess of 3 Mtpa.


Production:

CommodityUnits2021202020192018201720162015
Coal (thermal) t  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required31,036,00032,200,60031,461,90033,465,300
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Reserves at June 30, 2021:
Cut-off criteria:
Coal Resources: 0.35m seam thickness.
Coal Reserves: 0.35m seam thickness.

CategoryTonnage CommodityMarketable Coal
Proven 255 Mt Coal (thermal) 248 Mt
Probable 89 Mt Coal (thermal) 87 Mt
Proven & Probable 344 Mt Coal (thermal) 335 Mt
Measured 3,016 Mt Coal (thermal)
Indicated 1,167 Mt Coal (thermal)
Inferred 588 Mt Coal (thermal)
Total Resource 4,771 Mt Coal (thermal)

Financials:

Units2021202020192018201720162015
Revenue M USD  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required2,453   2,247   1,575   2,156  
Operating Income M USD  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required576   388   -73   -62  
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Staff:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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News:

NewsDate
Glencore completes acquisition of Cerrejón January 11, 2022
Glencore agrees to acquire JV partners’ shares in the Cerrejón mine and strengthens climate commitments June 28, 2021

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