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Broadmeadow East Mine

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Broadmeadow East Mine

Location: 25 km NE from Moranbah, Queensland, Australia

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Level 4 167 Eagle Street
Brisbane
Queensland, Australia
4000

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Summary

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusCare and Maintenance
Commodities
  • Coal (thermal)
  • Coal (coking)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Auger
  • Highwall
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SnapshotBroadmeadow East is a part of the Burton Complex.

Coal production started in July 2022 and was initially processed through neighbouring mine Carborough Downs CHPP under a coal washing and infrastructure sharing arrangement with Fitzroy Australia. Processing transitioned through the nearby Burton CHPP, post-refurbishment.

Opencut mining paused at Broadmeadow East in May 2024 due to the close proximity (300m standoff) to a powerline traversing the Mine.

The decision to pause the Broadmeadow East Mine followed a detailed strategic review by the Company of its portfolio which included a strict capital allocation assessment. Due to an uneconomic sum of capital expenditure required to move the powerline traversing the mining lease, the asset was placed in care and maintenance. Bowen Coking Coal retains optionality to return to Broadmeadow East on a reasonably quick restart basis.

As of 2025, assessments for future open-cut ROM extraction at Broadmeadow East continues.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Formosa Plastics Group 10 % Indirect
Bowen Coking Coal Ltd 90 % Indirect
Broadmeadow East mine was 100% owned by Bowen Coking Coal as at 30 June 2024. On 5 July 2024, MPC Lenton Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, acquired a 10% interest in the Broadmeadow East mine.

As of July 31, 2025, the fate of Bowen Coking Coal is in the hands of voluntarily-appointed administrators, but its board is hopeful a recapitalisation or sale of the business are still possible.

On 31 July 2025, Ben Campbell, John Park, and Joanne Dunn of FTI Consulting were appointed as Receivers and Managers, pursuant to security interests.

Decision has been made following the inability of the Company to secure fresh capital or to negotiate alternative commercial arrangements with two largest creditors, BUMA Australia, the Queensland Revenue Office, and the senior secured lender.

This came after the state’s tax authority rejected Bowen’s initial proposal on July 23. Bowen’s shares have been suspended from trading on the ASX since June 26, 2025.

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Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

At Broadmeadow East, the only economic seams occur in the Rangal Coal Measures which overlie the Fort Cooper Coal Measures. The Rangal Coal Measures are approximately 90m thick and contain five seams in descending order: the Burton Rider seam, the Leichhardt seam, the Upper Vermont seam, the Middle Vermont seam and the Lower Vermont seam. Only the Leichhardt seam is determined to be commercially viable in the Broadmeadow East area. The seams all crop in an elongated strip, broadly striking north northwest. The Rangal Coal Measures comprise interbedded fine to medium grained lithic sandstone, siltstone, mudstone and coal.

The Project area lies within the Permo-Triassic Bowen Basin. Coal seams occur within the Rangal Coal Measures and underlying Fort Cooper Coal Measures which are Late Permian in age. Coal seams in the Broadmeadow East deposit dip to the North-West, West at approximately 8 - 10 degrees. The target seam is the Leichhardt seam in the Rangal Coal Measures, which are extensively mined in the area. The drill hole density (core and chip) in the deposit allow for a good level of confidence in seam splitting, seam thickness, coal quality and location of sub-crop lines.

The Broadmeadow East ML deposit area occurs within a structurally complex zone on the eastern side of the Collinsville Shelf in the north Bowen Basin. The deposit is located on the eastern upthrown side of the Burton Range Fault, a regional scale meridional midTriassic thrust fault which lies to the west of the Broadmeadow mining leases and trends in a north-northwesterly direction.

The economic coal seams in the north Bowen Basin lie within the Permian Blackwater and Back Creek Group. The Blackwater Group comprises two late Permian coal-bearing sequences; the Fort Cooper Coal Measures and the Rangal Coal Measures, while the Back Creek Group contains the Moranbah Coal Measures. The economic Burton Coal Project deposits occur within the Rangal Coal Measures.

The Rangal Coal Measures contain the only economic coal seams in the Broadmeadow East ML area of which only the Leichhardt seam (BL), with an average thickness of between 3.5 and 4.2m is considered potentially commercial.

The coal resources are in the west limited by the subcrop, otherwise resources exist over the entire ML70257. The strike length is approximately 2,800m.

Depth of the BL seam at the subcrop is approximately 20m (Base of Weathering) and increases to approximately 300m in the north-east of the ML.

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Commodity Production

Broadmeadow East was placed in care and maintenance in May 2024.
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