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Appin woes drag down Illawarra annual met production

ILLAWARRA Metallurgical Coal’s saleable production decreased 40% to 4.2 million tonnes in FY18 as its Appin colliery in New South Wales recovered from an extended outage in H1 FY18.

South32's Appin coal mine in NSW had a strong production record in June.

South32's Appin coal mine in NSW had a strong production record in June.

However, the South32 subsidiary had a strong June quarter, increasing its metallurgical coal production by 295,000t to 1.1Mt.   The company managed to produce coal at an annualised  mining rate of...

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