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Mount Pleasant

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Mount Pleasant

Location: 7 km W from Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia

Address:

Delivery – 1100 Wybong Road
PO Box 351
Muswellbrook
New South Wales, Australia
2333

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotAs of 2024, Development Consents allows for mining operations at the Mount Pleasant Operation to be carried out until 22 December 2026.

The Mount Pleasant Optimisation (MPO) Project involves extraction of additional coal reserves, an increase in the rate of coal extraction to 21 Mtpa ROM and the continuation of mining operations until 2048. The approved MPO includes a rail loop and spur, load-out facility and conveyor, connecting the mine to the Muswellbrook–Ulan Rail Line.

Construction activities to be undertaken at MPO throughout the next 3 years include:
• commencement of the Fines Emplacement Area (FEA) Stage 3 Lift Project to increase the capacity for fines deposition;
• installation of larger tailings delivery lines to FEA;
• continuation of CHPP upgrades and raw coal throughput, construction of Fine Coal Annex for each module and increase in Product Stacking rate;
• completion of the new High Wall Dam 2 and decommissioning the current High Wall Dam 1.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
JCD Australia Pty Ltd 5 % Indirect
MACH Energy Inc 95 % Indirect
MACH Energy Australia Pty Ltd (operator) 100 % Direct
MACH Mount Pleasant Operations Pty Ltd is the manager of the MPO as agent for, and on behalf of, the unincorporated Mount Pleasant Joint Venture between MACH Energy (95 per cent [%] owner) and J.C.D. Australia Pty Ltd (5% owner).

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Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

The Mount Pleasant Project is located within the Hunter Coalfield, in the northern section of the Sydney Basin. The Mount Pleasant Project coal resource is located in the Permian Wittingham Coal Measures within the Denman Formation and Jerrys Plains Subgroup and the Archerfield Sandstone and Vane Subgroup. Lithologies comprise mostly sandstones, siltstones and coal seams with minor conglomerates and tuffs. Coal seams amenable to open cut mining occur in eight correlated seams and include the Upper Piercefield (Warkworth) Seam to the lowermost Edderton Seam. The target coal seams vary widely across the extent of the mine, with mineable units generally ranging from approximately 0.6 metres (m) to approximately 10 m in thickness.

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Production

CommodityUnits2024202320222021202020192018
Coal (thermal) Mt  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe5.6 0.03 
All production numbers are expressed as clean coal. ^ Guidance / Forecast.

Operational metrics

Metrics2024202320222021202020192018
Coal tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe5.97 Mt0.15 Mt
Waste  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe18.5 Mbcm8.78 Mbcm
Reject  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe0.13 Mt
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Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

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