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Drake Mine

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 Location:
17 km S from Collinsville, Queensland, Australia

  Address:
Level 15, 40 Creek Street
PO Box 10630
Brisbane
Queensland, Australia
4000
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Coal (thermal)
  • Coal (hard coking)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start...
Mine Life26 years (as of Jan 1, 2013)


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
QCoal Group 100 % Indirect
The Drake Coal Mine (DCM) is operated by Drake Mine Management Pty Ltd(DMM). DMM is a subsidiary of QCoal Pty Ltd (QCoal).

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Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:

The Drake Coal Project covers a complete sequence of the Moranbah Coal Measures which reach a maximum thickness of around 480m and comprise cross-bedded lithic sandstone and siltstone, mudstone and coal seams. The Moranbah Coal Measures contain seven economically viable coal seams designated as A (deepest seam), B, C, E, P, P Rider and Q. Coal seams A through Q inclusive would be mined at the Drake Coal Project at various locations. The coal seams subcrop in a north to north-east direction and dip at low angles to the east and southeast. Interburden rocks consist of quartz-poor lithic sandstones, siltstones, shale and mudstones that sub-crop in a north to north-east direction and dip at low angles to the east and south-east.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

The project would be located in the northern Bowen Basin of Central Queensland, approximately 150 kilometres (km) north-west of Mackay and 17km south of the Collinsville townships in the Whitsunday Regional Council local government area. The nearest private residence to active mining areas would be the Sonoma Homestead, located 3km to the north. Nine other residences are also located within 5km of the mine. The project area is bounded by Two Mile Creek to the north, the Bowen River to the south, the Bowen Development Road to the east and grazing to the west.

Mining would be by conventional diesel powered truck and excavator methods, involving the stripping of vegetation and the removal and stockpiling of topsoil and subsoil for later use in rehabilitation. Overburden and coal would progressively be removed from ten mining pits ranging in size from 29ha to 1101ha in area and between 20 metres (m) and 140m in depth. A dozer operation would be employed in pits of longer strike such as West Pits 1 and 2. Inpit blasting of coal and/or overburden may be required. The two main pits are West Pit 1 located in the south-west and West Pit 2 located in the north-west of the project site with surface areas of 1101ha and 987ha respectively. The remaining eight satellite pits (East Pits 1 to 4 and Central Pits 1 to 4) are scattered along, or near, the eastern boundary of Mining Lease 10349 and range in size from 29ha (Central Pit 4) to 216ha (East Pits 2/3).

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Production:

CommodityUnits2022202120202019201820172016
Coal (thermal) t  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required3,324,3492,707,4371,608,561
Coal (hard coking) t  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics202220212020201920182017
Coal tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required4,932,996 t of ROM coal6,289,679 t of ROM coal5,199,889 t of ROM coal
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Tonnes processed  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required5,009,233 t6,148,671 t5,107,650 t
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Reserves at January 9, 2013:

CategoryTonnage Commodity
Total Resource 200 Mt Coal (metallurgical & thermal)



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Staff:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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