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Flexible mining methods needed at Dartbrook, says AusPac

THE proposed modification 7 to Australian Pacific Coal’s Dartbrook mine in New South Wales provides an alternative mining method and coal clearance system to enable greater flexibility and hopefully help get mining operations restarted there.

 The Dartbrook mine in NSW.

The Dartbrook mine in NSW.

The proposed mine modification application, which is with the NSW Independent Planning Commission, will allow the extraction of about 10 million tonnes of run of mine coal via bord and pillar mining within...

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