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Foxleigh Mine

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 Location:
15 km SE from Middlemount, Queensland, Australia

  Address:
Middlemount/Tieri Rd
PO Box 21
Middlemount
Queensland, Australia
4746
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Coal (PCI)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • CHPP
  • Flotation
  • Dense media separation
Mine Life13 years (as of Jan 1, 2015)
QMetco Limited is an unlisted public company, formerly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:RRP) until it was delisted on 15th January 2019 following the successful aquisition of 100% of the issued shares by Taurus Resources investment funds.
Latest NewsMacmahon named preferred tenderer for $250m Foxleigh project     October 21, 2020


Owners & OPERATOR

Source:
CompanyInterestOwnership
Nippon Steel Australia Pty Ltd. 10 % Indirect
POSCO Australia Pty Ltd. 20 % Indirect
Middlemount South Pty Ltd (operator) 70 % Direct
QMetco Ltd. 70 % Indirect
QMetco acquired the Foxleigh Mine in August 2016 via its 100% ownership of Middlemount South Pty Ltd (Middlemount South), which operates Foxleigh on behalf of the Foxleigh Coal Joint Venture. Joint Venture partners in the Foxleigh Mine are POSCO Australia Pty Ltd (20%) and Nippon Steel Australia Pty. Limited (10%).

QMetco Limited is an unlisted public company, formerly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:RRP) until it was delisted on 15th January 2019 following the successful aquisition of 100% of the issued shares by Taurus Resources investment funds.

Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:

Metallurgical Coal operates six mines in Australia: one wholly owned, and five in which it has a controlling interest. Five of the mines are located in Queensland’s Bowen Basin: Moranbah North (metallurgical coal), Capcoal (metallurgical and thermal coal), Foxleigh (metallurgical coal), Dawson (metallurgical and thermal coal) and Callide (thermal coal).

The Bowen Basin of eastern Australia contains up to 10 km of largely clastic sediment from terrestrial and shallow marine origin along with substantial volumes of economic coals. The German Creek Formation (GCM), the Moranbah coal measures (MCM) and the Rangal Group Measures (RCM) host most of the open pit and underground mining operations. Basin sediments were sourced from emergent volcanic uplands, so clasts are generally lithic and form clay-rich weathering products. The basal unit of the GCM is marine and devoid of coal, and overlain by a delta plain coal bearing sequence of siltstones, some sandstones, and interbedded, often carbonaceous, siltstone and sandstone with coals. The MCM comprises alluvial plain sediments overlying a shallow marine shelf, with sequences of thick sheets of lithic sandstone and interbedded siltstone-sandstone generally overlying carbonaceous siltstone and coal. The basin-wide RCM sequence comprises sandstones, siltstones, interbedded sandstone-siltstone, carbonaceous siltstones, and coals, and is overlain by a noncoal bearing alluvial sequence of massive sandstone and siltstone. Several tuffaceous marker beds occur, some of which are lithified while others form thin bands of high plasticity clay. In most areas there is a Tertiary unconformity overlain by sheets of clay-bound alluvial or lacustrine sediments, and in some areas there are basalt flows.

Deep weathering cycles occurred during Tertiary time, and modern drainage courses include alluvial sequences to depths of 20m or more. Weathering alteration includes leaching, laterisation, and transformation to clay. Depths of distinct weathering to complete transformation range from 15m to 45m. Bowen Basin coal measures rock material strengths range from extremely low (UCS <2MPa) to high (20 to 60MPa) and generally average 10 to 25MPa. Typically material stiffnesses fall into the low to moderate modulus ratio range.

The Foxleigh Project is focused on the Rangal Coal Measures which comprise a 200m thick sedimentary sequence of siltstone, fine-grained sandstone and mudstone containing several economically significant coal seams. The seams targeted by the mine are locally known (in descending order) as the Roper, Middlemount, Tralee and Pisces Seams.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

Foxleigh is an open cut, truck and excavator operation, producing premium low volatile PCI coal.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • CHPP
  • Flotation
  • Dense media separation

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Summary:

Mining is undertaken using the truck and excavator method, with raw coal delivered to Foxleigh’s coal handling and preparation plant (“CHPP”) for washing.

A new 540t/h CHPP consisting of a raw coal dump hopper, feeder breaker, ROM crushing station, processing through dense medium cyclone, a TBS plant, a flotation plant and product handling system.


Production:

CommodityUnits201920182017201620152014
Coal (metallurgical) Mt  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required33.21.92
All production numbers are expressed as clean coal.
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics201820172016
Stripping / waste ratio  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required7
Coal tonnes mined  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required4,366 kt of ROM coal
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Reserves at March 31, 2018:

CategoryTonnage CommodityMarketable Coal
Proven 44.2 Mt Coal (metallurgical) 31.1 Mt
Probable 25.4 Mt Coal (metallurgical) 18 Mt
Proven & Probable 69.6 Mt Coal (metallurgical) 49.1 Mt
Measured 110 Mt Coal (metallurgical)
Indicated 180 Mt Coal (metallurgical)
Inferred 60 Mt Coal (metallurgical)
Total Resource 350 Mt Coal (metallurgical)


Heavy Mobile Equipment:
HME TypeModelSizeQuantityStatusLeased or
Contractor
Ref. Date
Excavator ....................... Subscription required 2 Existing Dec 31, 2017
Excavator ....................... Subscription required 1 Existing Dec 31, 2017
....................... Subscription required ....................... Subscription required 21 Proposed Leased Oct 21, 2020
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Mine Management:

Job TitleNameProfileRef. Date
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Staff:

EmployeesYear
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
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Financial Review 2017
Quarterly Report 2017
Annual Report 2016
Press Release 2016
Annual Report 2015
Press Release 2015
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2015
Other 2000
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News:

NewsDate
Macmahon named preferred tenderer for $250m Foxleigh project October 21, 2020

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