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Bulga Mine

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 Location:
14 km SW from Singleton, New South Wales, Australia

  Address:
PMB 8 (567 Broke Road)
Singleton
New South Wales, Australia
2330
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Coal (M/T)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Wash plant
  • Dewatering
  • CHPP
Mine Life2039


Owners

Source:
CompanyInterestOwnership
JFE Shoji Corp. 1.575 % Indirect
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Australia Pty Ltd 12.5 % Indirect
JX Nippon Oil & Energy (Australia) Pty Limited 13.3 % Indirect
Glencore plc. 72.625 % Indirect
Bulga Coal Management Pty Ltd (operator) 100 % Direct
Bulga Coal is a joint venture between Saxonvale Coal Pty Ltd (87.5%) and Nippon Steel Australia Pty Ltd (12.5%). Saxonvale Coal Pty Ltd is 100% owned by Oakbridge Pty Limited.

In turn, Oakbridge is an incorporated joint venture between Enex Oakbridge Pty Limited (83%), ENEOS Australia Pty Limited (15.2%) and JFE Shoji Corporation (1.8%). Enex Oakbridge Pty Limited is 100% owned by Glencore.

Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:

Bulga Coal is located in the central coal producing region of the Hunter Coalfield. The many seams of this coalfield were formed in the Permian period and are similar in age to the Illawarra Coal Measures south and west of Sydney, and the Newcastle and Tomago Coal Measures of the Newcastle/Maitland area. The coalfield strata in the Hunter Coalfield generally dip to the west south-west under the prominent sandstone escarpments of the Sydney Basin. A series of folds, superimposed upon the regional dip, form large north-south trending anticlines, synclines and monocline structures. The coal seams within Bulga Coal, which form part of the Wittingham Measures, dip steeply in the east from where they outcrop. The seams have been folded by the Mount Thorley Monocline to level out forming part of the gently dipping strata of the Singleton Super Groups.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

Bulga Open Cut continued mining coal reserves from the East Pit, Main Pit and Woodlands Hill Pit in 2020. Mining also commenced in the Whybrow Wedge in November. In the Woodlands Hill Pit, mining progressed in a westerly direction. In the East Pit, Main Pit and Whybrow Wedge, mining progressed in a southerly direction.

Bulga Open Cut placed overburden on the inside of the Noise and Visual Bund, Eastern Emplacement Area, Southern Extension Dump and undertook in-pit dumping in the Main Pit and East Pit. Overburden was stripped using a dragline and a truck/shovel fleet. The dragline ceased operations in the second half of 2020. Coal was mined by a fleet of excavators and trucks.

ROM coal was transported by dump truck via an overpass on Broke Road to the ROM coal hopper or stockpile at the CHPP.

Bulga Underground Operations comprises the sealed Blakefield South Mine, along with the approved, but not commenced, Blakefield North Mine.

Mining of Blakefield South Longwall 1B was completed on 3 May 2018, following which underground mining at Bulga Underground Operations ceased and the Blakefield South mine was sealed. The Blakefield North Mine has been postponed; however, the associated pre-drainage wellfield continues to be operated to supply the gas fired power station. The Blakefield South Pit top facilities have been demolished to allow the progression of open cut mining.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Wash plant
  • Dewatering
  • CHPP

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Summary:

Once mined, the coal is transported to the Coal Handling and Preparation Plant where the minor waste component, usually clay or sandstone, is washed away. The waste is either disposed into tailings dams or thickened and co-disposed in the overburden dumps.

The coal is broken down to particles of less than 125 millimetres in a crusher and then washed, screened, rinsed and dewatered.

The product coal handling facilities include dual product conveying systems from the plant out to the stockpiles.

The CHPP can produce two streams of product coal; semi-soft coking coal and thermal coal.


Production:

CommodityUnits2021202020192018201720162015
Coal (M/T) t  ......  Subscription required ^  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required8,098,7815,765,4275,621,5176,550,673
All production numbers are expressed as clean coal. ^ Guidance / Forecast.
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics202120202019201820172016
Waste  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required64,357,000 bcm51,647,323 bcm45,937,000 bcm54,970,641 bcm
Coal tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required12,200,000 t of ROM coal12,092,025 t of ROM coal8,807,000 t of ROM coal8,954,709 t of ROM coal
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Reserves at December 31, 2020:

CategoryOreTypeTonnage CommodityMarketable Coal
Proven In-Situ (OP) 50 Mt Coal (thermal) 30 Mt
Proven In-Situ (UG) 70 Mt Coal (thermal) 50 Mt
Probable In-Situ (OP) 60 Mt Coal (thermal) 40 Mt
Probable In-Situ (UG) 24 Mt Coal (thermal) 17 Mt
Measured Total 980 Mt Coal (thermal)
Indicated Total 560 Mt Coal (thermal)
Inferred Total 1,300 Mt Coal (thermal)


Heavy Mobile Equipment as of December 31, 2020:
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Truck (fuel / lube) ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required
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Truck (haul) ....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required
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Mine Management:

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Staff:

EmployeesYear
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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Annual Review 2018
Fact Sheet 2018
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2018
Annual Review 2017
Annual Review 2016
Annual Review 2015
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