ENVIRONMENT

Mt Pleasant outcome

THE New South Wales planning department has recommended approval be given for Mach Energy’s Mt Pleasant’s optimisation project, which will effectively extend the Hunter Valley coal mine’s life for another 22 years.

Mach's Mt Pleasant optimisation project also involves doubling the mine’s production rate to 21Mtpa.

Mach's Mt Pleasant optimisation project also involves doubling the mine’s production rate to 21Mtpa.

Mach proposes optimising the existing Mount Pleasant mine to extract an additional 247 million tonnes of run-of-mine coal, by deepening it about 85m and extending part of the open cut areas. The project...

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