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Callide Mine

Location: 14 km NE from Biloela, Queensland, Australia

Address:

1091 Biloela Callide Rd
PO Box 144
Biloela
Queensland, Australia
4715

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Dragline
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SnapshotCallide consists of four operating mine areas: Boundary Hill, Trap Gully, The Hut and Dunn Creek. Current production level of 10Mt of which approximately 61% is for domestic market and 39% for export.

All domestic production is sold under contracts with two adjacent power stations (Callide B & C Power Stations) and an aluminiumsmelter (Queensland Alumina).

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
AVRA International DMCC 85.5 % Indirect
Avra owns 85.5% in the Callide Mine in Australia and an exclusive right to market 100% of export volumes produced.

Batchfire Resources Pty Ltd is the holding entity for Batchfire Callide Pty Ltd and Batchfire Callide No.2 Pty Ltd which holds the mining tenure in the Callide Basin.

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Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

The Callide Mine is located in the Callide Basin of Central Queensland, approximately 20km north of Biloela and 85km south-west of Gladstone.

Curently Batchfire operates three major mining areas of Dunn Creek, Trap Gully and Boundary Hill South.

The Boundary Hill South is located within the Callide Basin, which is a fault bounded synclinal basin of Middle to Upper Triassic age. The Callide Basin is approximately 22km long and 8km wide, and is aligned generally along a north-west to south-east axis.

The geology of the Boundary Hill South area includes the following strata:
• Quaternary alluvium associated with creeks;
• Biloela Formation;
• Precipice Sandstone;
• Callide Coal Measures;
• Triassic Muncon basement volcanics.

The Callide Coal Measures are the primary resource of economic significance at the Boundary Hill operation.

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

Processing

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Production

CommodityUnits202320222021202020192018201720162015
Coal (thermal) t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe11,322,8109,776,1678,394,2997,837,4948,129,429
All production numbers are expressed as ROM coal.

Operational metrics

Metrics20232022202120202019201820172016
Coal tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe10,808,867 t of ROM coal10,156,142 t of ROM coal7,035,577 t of ROM coal8,068,659 t of ROM coal

Production Costs

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