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Cascade Mine

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusClosing / Closed
Commodities
  • Coal (semi-soft coking)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
SnapshotThe Cascade mine previously produced semi-soft coking coal for local New Zealand cement manufacturers. In late 2015 with the imminent closure of the local cement plant was decided the remaining accessible coal in Cascade was uneconomic to recover due this lost market.

Environmental compliance monitoring is ongoing to ensure that the company continues to meet the conditions of the consent. The site is fully rehabilitated.

Owners

SourceSource
CompanyInterestOwnership
Bathurst Resources Ltd. 100 % Indirect
The Cascade Mine is wholly owned and operated by Bathurst Coal Ltd (BCL) a wholly owned subsidiary of Bathurst Resources Ltd.

Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

The Coalbrookdale and remaining Cascade resource is considered to be an underground coal resource.

The coal structure surfaces for each domain, along with LiDAR topography surface, quaternary unconformity surface, and other mining related surfaces for Cascade and Escarpment are used to build the block model. The block dimensions are constructed at 10m x 10m. Vertical thickness for coal blocks is 0.5m, whilst overburden blocks are set to 5m maximum thickness.

A Quaternary gravel deposit truncates the coal measures as an unconformity within the Cascade valley. This unconformity surface has been incorporated into the resource model. Some uncertainty surrounds the surface and therefore the coal resource within the area of influence. The Quaternary gravel deposit only covers an area of ~2.5Ha or < 0.1% of the total resource area, much of which has already been extracted at the Cascade opencast mine.

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Mining Methods

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Milling equipment has not been reported.

Processing

Summary:

Production

CommodityUnits20162015
Coal (semi-soft coking) t 17,29977,765

Operational metrics

Metrics20162015
Waste 195,988 bcm491,813 bcm

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Heavy Mobile Equipment

Fleet data has not been reported.

Personnel

Mine Management

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