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Collinsville Mine

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (metallurgical)
  • Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Dragline
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SnapshotCollinsville Coal is an open cut coal mine with associated coal handling and processing infrastructure that produces thermal and coking coal for both overseas and domestic markets.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Glencore plc. 100 % Indirect
Newlands Collinsville Abbot Point (NCA) (operator) 100 % Direct
Collinsville Open Cut is part of the NC Coal Company Pty Ltd that is 100% owned by Glencore.

Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

Along the structurally disturbed north-eastern edge of the Bowen Basin, the coals range in rank from anthracite to low volatile bituminous, and deposits tend to exhibit a complex structure. Coals in the central part of the basin are medium to high volatile bituminous and include the best coking coals. Structural deformation in these deposits is generally relatively mild.

Coal-bearing horizons have been preserved at many stratigraphic levels throughout the Bowen Basin, but deposits of economic importance are restricted to four groups.

Group II coal measures, also of Early Permian age, occur as several unconnected deposits located around the northern and western margins of the basin. These include the Collinsville Coal Measures in the north.

Group III coals of Late Permian age were deposited on the Collinsville Shelf, under conditions which varied from a marine- influenced deltaic environment in the German Creek Formation, to dominantly fluvial flood plain environments in the Moranbah Coal Measures. These formations contain most of the high-grade coking coal deposits mined in Queensland.

Collinsville Coal Measures of Early Permian age, containing up to nine coal seams; extensive faulting and igneous intrusions have affected all seams to varying extents, with five seams currently worked; average thicknesses of these are: Garrick — 2.6m; Scott — 1.8m; Denison — 2.8m; Bowen — 6.5m; and Blake — 10m.

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

Processing

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Production

CommodityUnits20232022202120202019201820172016
Coal (thermal) t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe3,531,4492,592,8331,459,8341,471,279
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All production numbers are expressed as clean coal.

Operational metrics

Metrics20232022202120202019201820172016
Coal tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe4,936,278 t3,515,123 t1,708,952 t1,647,226 t
Tonnes processed  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe4,144,288 t3,438,804 t1,860,024 t1,712,763 t
Raw coal annual capacity  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe6 Mt

Production Costs

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