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Fording River Mine

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 Location:
19 km NE from Elkford, British Columbia, Canada

  Address:
P.O. Box 100
Elkford
British Columbia, Canada
V0B 1H0
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Coal (metallurgical)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start...
Mine Life38 years (as of Jan 1, 2021)
To align with the need for additional steelmaking coal at Fording River Operations to extend the mine life and maintain employment and regional economic benefits, Teck anticipates that pre-construction activities for FRX (Fording River Extension) will begin in 2023 in order to start production in 2026. By the early 2030s, all steelmaking coal for Fording River would come from the Project.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Teck Resources Ltd. 100 % Indirect

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Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:

The mineralized zone in the FRO (Fording River Operation) properties contain bituminous grade coal seams with varying volatile matter contents. The Mist Mountain Formation contains over 13 economic coal seams (consisting of medium to high volatile bituminous coal) and is the most widely occurring formation on the Fording River property. The Mist Mountain Formation is approximately 500-metres (m) thick and consists of an interbedded sequence of sandstones, siltstones, silty shales, mudstones, and medium to high volatile bituminous coal seams, with the depth of burial ranging from surface exposures to greater than 1,500 m.

The quality of the coal seams in the Mist Mountain Formation varies with depth of burial and location along strike of the deposit. With standard coal processing to remove impurities, these seams will produce coking coal suitable for use in steel-making. The majority of coal products produced by FRO requires a blend of coal mined from two or more seams, and potentially of coal from different mining areas.

FRO uses the following categories to identify the different types of coals mined from the pits.
- Standard Coal: < 24.5% Volatile Matter (VM), includes Seams 010 – 090.
- Premium Coals: 26.5% to 28.5% VM, includes Seams 110 – 130.
- Eagle Coals: > 28.5% VM, includes Seams 140 and higher.

There are seams with VM content near 25%, which FRO blends into both Standard and Premium categories.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

The Fording River mine is located 29 kilometres northeast of the community of Elkford, in southeastern British Columbia. The mine site consists of approximately 23,000 hectares of coal lands, including four operating surface coal pits along with several areas planned for surface mine development held under multiple contiguous coal leases and licences.

Coal mined at Fording River is primarily steelmaking coal, although lesser quantities of lower-grade hard coking coal are also produced.

Fording River’s reserve areas include Eagle Mountain, Swift, Turnbull and Castle Mountain and currently produces coal from the Eagle and Swift operating areas. Approximately half of the current production is derived from the Eagle Mountain pit area, with the other half produced from the Swift pit area.

FRO currently produces coal using open-pit coal mining methods, with primary waste stripping and coal mining completed by shovels and rear dump haul trucks.

Waste is blasted using large diameter blast-hole drills. The shot overburden/interburden is dumped into the waste haul trucks by electric shovels. Mine waste is backfilled into the advancing mining pit where practical and to external dumps as required to release adequate ROM coal to meet annual production targets. Front-end loaders and bulldozers are used to move coal to piles on the mined benches; coal haul trucks later haul coal to the breaker for delivery to the coal processing plant.


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Production:

CommodityUnits2017201620152014
Coal (metallurgical) Mt 7.97.37.48.1
All production numbers are expressed as clean coal.

Operational Metrics:

Metrics202120202019201820172016
Raw coal annual capacity  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required9 Mt9 Mt8.5 Mt8.5 Mt
Annual production capacity  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required9.5 Mt of clean coal9.5 Mt of clean coal9.5 Mt of clean coal9.5 Mt of clean coal
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Reserves at December 31, 2021:

CategoryTonnage CommodityMarketable Coal
Proven 87,200 kt Coal (metallurgical)
Probable 253,900 kt Coal (metallurgical)
Proven & Probable 341,100 kt Coal (metallurgical) 341,100 kt
Measured 514,700 kt Coal (metallurgical)
Indicated 996,900 kt Coal (metallurgical)
Inferred 597,300 kt Coal (metallurgical)

Financials:

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Heavy Mobile Equipment as of June 9, 2022:
HME TypeModelSizeQuantity
Shovel (rope) ....................... Subscription required 122.5 t ....................... Subscription required
Truck (haul) ....................... Subscription required 363 t
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Mine Management:

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Staff:

EmployeesYear
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Quarterly Report 2022
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Annual Information Form 2018
Annual Information Form 2017
Annual Information Form 2016
Annual Information Form 2015
Annual Information Form 2014
Technical Report 2011
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