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Mount Thorley Mine

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (semi-soft coking)
  • Coal (thermal)
  • Coal (metallurgical & thermal)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
  • Dragline
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SnapshotMount Thorley Warkworth (MTW) is an integrated operation of two open cut coal mines, Warkworth Mining Limited (WML) and Mount Thorley Operations (MTO).
Related AssetMount Thorley Warkworth Operation

Owners

SourceSource
CompanyInterestOwnership
POSCO Australia Pty Ltd. 20 % Indirect
Yancoal Australia, Ltd. 80 % Indirect
Mt Thorley Operations (MTO) is a joint venture owned by Yancoal (80%) and Posco (20%).

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Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

Mount Thorley Warkworth (MTW) is located within the Sydney Basin of New South Wales (NSW), a world–class export thermal coal mining district. The Sydney Basin is a north-south trending basin, containing generally flat lying Permian Triassic sequences, approximately 250 km long, averages 100 km in width, ranges from 2km to 4km in depth and covers an area of approximately 37,000 km2 onshore and 15,000 km2 offshore. Sedimentation in the Sydney Basin can be divided into many distinct depositional episodes, related to marine transgression and regression an terrestrial sedimentation. In the Sydney Basin the total thickness of the sedimentary package ranges on average from 2 to 3 km over much of the basin, based primarily on drill-hole records and deep seismic profiles. Coal bearing formations in Permian aged sediments are extensive in the Sydney Basin and range in depth from near the surface to over 1 km. The Sydney Basin is divided into five major coalfields; Southern, Central, Newcastle, Hunter and Western, and comprised of black anthracite coal bed of a few centimetres to several meters, interbedded with sandstones, shales, tuffs and claystone. During coal bore drilling in the late 19th Century a number of bores encountered flows of natural gas. The Late Permian coal measures show sources of both oil and gas, with the offshore basin possibility more prone to oil Fine grained sediments deposited during the brief marine incursions that took place during the Late Permian may also have some potential as oil sources.

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

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Processing

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Production

CommodityUnits20162015
Coal (semi-soft coking) kt 1,4201,398
Coal (thermal) kt 2,8502,815
All production numbers are expressed as clean coal.

Operational metrics

Metrics2024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Coal tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe0.71 Mt3.02 Mt4.08 Mt3.96 Mt3.32 Mt
^ Guidance / Forecast.

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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