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Blackwater Mine

Location: 73 km SE from Emerald, Queensland, Australia

Regional Office:

Level 12, 175 Eagle Street
Brisbane
Queensland, Australia
4000

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (metallurgical)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Dragline
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SnapshotBlackwater mine one of the longest coal mines in the Southern Hemisphere, with a strike length of 80 kilometers.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Whitehaven Coal Ltd. 100 % Indirect
On April 2, 2024, Whitehaven Coal completed the acquisition of 100% of the Blackwater metallurgical coal mine and all of the shares in South Blackwater Coal Pty Ltd from BHP and Mitsubishi Development (“Mitsubishi”) (together, BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (“BMA”)).

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Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

Bituminous coal is mined from the Permian Moranbah and Rangal Coal measures. Products range from premium quality, low volatile, high vitrinite, hard coking coal to medium volatile hard coking coal, to weak coking coal, some pulverised coal injection (PCI) coal and medium ash thermal coal as a secondary product.

Rangal Coal Measures of Late Permian age, dipping 3-5° to the east. Three major coal seams are present: Top (Aries) - 0.8-1.5m; Middle (Castor) - 2-3.5m; Main Lower (Taurus/Argo) - 5-7m. Complex seam splitting occurs along the 35km strike length of the mine.

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

Processing

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Production

CommodityUnits202320222021202020192018201720162015
Coal (metallurgical) kt  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe13,20613,37614,59215,25213,988
All production numbers are expressed as clean coal.

Operational metrics

Metrics2022202120202019201820172016
Coal tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe15,262,320 t14,598,569 t16,097,035 t16,277,870 t
Tonnes processed  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe15,261,759 t13,678,878 t16,581,448 t16,524,952 t

Production Costs

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Personnel

Mine Management

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