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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)
  • Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Flotation
  • Dense media separation
Mine Life29 years (as of Jan 1, 2019)
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

Source: p. 34-35
CompanyInterestOwnership
Teck Resources Ltd. 100 % Indirect
Teck Coal Partnership 100 % Direct
The leases and licenses relating to Fording River are held by Teck Coal. Teck Coal also controls the surface and subsurface rights to the properties which are in operation and those that are planned for development.

Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

All of Teck’s coal mines are conventional open-pit operations and are designed to operate on a continuous basis, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

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.

The current mining fleet is comprised of the following equipment.

• Caterpillar 994 (2)
• Letourneau 1850 (3)
• Letourneau 1400 (1)
• Marion 301 shovel
• Marion 351 shovel
• P & H 4100 A shovel
• P & H 4100 XPB shovels (2)
• P & H 4100 XPC shovel (2)
• Production drills (5)
• Waste/coal haul fleet (63)
• Bulldozers
• Graders
• Backhoes
• Scrapers
• Water trucks


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Flotation
  • Dense media separation

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Summary:

Fording River Operation produces all products sized to -2 inches using standard coal processing methods of heavy media cyclones for coarse coal, and cyclones and froth flotation for fines processing.

ROM coal from pits and stockpiles passes through a rotary breaker and plant feeders. After sizing to 38 mm (1.5 inches), the raw coal is screened to 0.75 mm, with +0.75 mm coal feeding heavy medium cyclones, with the product screened to +0.5 mm, centrifuged and sent to the thermal dryer. Coal sized at -0.75 mm enters a fine coal circuit that includes water only cyclones, spirals, sieve bends, froth flotation cells, thickeners, centrifuges, and the thermal dryer. Coarse rejects are directed to a bin for loading into haul trucks. Spiral rejects are dewatered and sent with coarse rejects, with screen underflow reporting to tailings ponds. Flotation rejects are split for either thickening, filtering and disposal with coarse rejects, or directed to the tailings ponds.


Production:

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

Operational Metrics:

Metrics201920182017201620152014
Annual mining capacity  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required8.5 Mt of coal (metallurgical)8.5 Mt of coal (metallurgical)8.5 Mt of coal (metallurgical)
Coal washing plant annual capacity  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required9.5 Mt of clean coal9.5 Mt of clean coal9.5 Mt of clean coal
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Reserves at December 31, 2019:

CategoryTonnage Commodity
Proven 74,000 kt Coal (metallurgical)
Probable 191,200 kt Coal (metallurgical)
Proven & Probable 265,200 kt Coal (metallurgical)
Measured 418,300 kt Coal (metallurgical)
Indicated 921,600 kt Coal (metallurgical)
Inferred 711,300 kt Coal (metallurgical)


Heavy Mobile Equipment as of December 31, 2011:
HME TypeModelQuantity
Drill 5
Loader ....................... Subscription required 3
Loader ....................... Subscription required 1
Loader (FEL) ....................... Subscription required 2
Shovel ....................... Subscription required 1
Shovel ....................... Subscription required 1
Shovel ....................... Subscription required 1
Shovel ....................... Subscription required 2
Shovel ....................... Subscription required 2
Truck (haul) 63
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Mine Management:

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
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Annual Information Form 2017
Annual Information Form 2016
Annual Information Form 2015
Annual Information Form 2014
Technical Report 2011
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