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Lake Vermont Mine

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Lake Vermont Mine

Location: 117 km N from Emerald, Queensland, Australia

Address:

Level 7, 12 Creek Street
Brisbane
Queensland, Australia
4000

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Summary

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (hard coking)
  • Coal (PCI)
  • Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotThe Lake Vermont Extension Project is an extension to the immediate north of the existing Lake Vermont Mine. Production levels from the Lake Vermont Mine have been steadily declining since 2021.

The Lake Vermont Extension Project is proposed to provide additional product coal to help augment the reduced open-cut output from the existing Lake Vermont Mine. The objective of the project is to help maintain production levels.

The operator plans to continue coal production in the extension area until the end of the mine life. Following the ML grant, the Lake Vermont Mine and the Lake Vermont Extension Area will collectively be known as the ‘Lake Vermont Complex’.

The activities associated with the Lake Vermont Extension Project include the preparation and development of underground single and dual-seam longwall mining, as well as open-cut mining activities.

If approved, the project to be operational by December 2028.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Sojitz Coal Resources Pty Ltd. 10 % Indirect
Marubeni Coal Pty Ltd. 10 % Indirect
AMCI Group 10 % Indirect
Jellinbah Group 70 % Indirect
Lake Vermont Mine is held by the participants of the Lake Vermont Joint Venture (Jellinbah Group 70%, Marubeni Coal 10%, Sojitz Coal 10% and AMCI 10%).

Lake Vermont Resources Pty Ltd manages the Lake Vermont Joint Venture operations, on behalf of the joint venture participants.

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Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

Target coal seams at the Lake Vermont Mine include the Vermont Seam and Leichhardt Seam; both contained within the Rangal Coal Measures.

The Leichhardt averaging 3.2m thick and Vermont averaging 5.6m thick, along a strike length of more than 8km. The seams sub crops at a depth of 30 metres and dips gently to the east separated by an average of 32 metres of waste material. Both seams produce high quality hard coking coal and PCI coal after processing.

Lake Vermont Extension Project
Commercially recoverable coal resources in the Project occur in the Rangal Coal Measures between the crop of the Vermont Lower seam in the west and the Isaac Fault to the east from depths of 30m to 50m near the crop of the prospective seams to more than 550m depth to the Vermont Lower seam in the north-eastern corner of the deposit, adjacent to the Isaac Fault.

Leichhardt Lower Seam (LHL)
As the Leichhardt seam thins and deteriorates northwards, the LHL develops below it. Initially the LHL occurs as a coaly/carbonaceous horizon with no economic potential, which gradually thickens and improves towards the north. In the south, the LHL attains a mineable quality at approximately 2m thickness along a line termed the LHL Effective Limit. To the south and west of this line, the seam is considered to have no economic potential.

The LHL thins to the west, and over most of the potential open cut area it is between 2m to 3.5m thick. The seam splits in the north-western corner of MDL 429 into a thin (0.3m to 0.6m) generally high ash upper seam (LHL1) and a thicker (2.2m to 3.4m) lower seam (LHL2) which is separated by 0.1m to 0.8m of coaly mudstone.

Vermont Lower Seam (VL)
The VL is the principal commercial seam throughout the Project area and has been intersected at depths ranging from 27m (weathered) to 557m. The VL maintains a consistent thickness of 3.5m to 4.5m until it splits in the north-western corner of the MDL into two, thin, higher ash seams, the Vermont Lower 1 seam (VL1) and the Vermont Lower 2 seam (VL2).

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

Processing

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Commodity Production

CommodityUnits202420232022202120202019201820172016
Coal (hard coking) t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe8,138,4129,092,4258,838,9678,970,878
Coal (PCI) t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe
Coal (thermal) t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe428,781412,918
All production numbers are expressed as clean coal.

Operational metrics

Metrics202420232022202120202019201820172016
Coal tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe10,720,365 t11,567,648 t10,517,068 t11,274,715 t
Tonnes processed  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe10,468,725 t11,549,964 t10,775,935 t11,249,826 Mt
Annual production capacity  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe9 Mt of clean coal

Production Costs

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