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For the full year, BHP produced a total of 38.4 million tonnes of metallurgical coal and 87Mt of energy coal from its global operations.
Strong demand, particularly from China, underpinned the company's record annual production of iron ore, copper, aluminum, manganese ore, nickel and coking coal.
In Australia, records were achieved at Goonyella and Saraji coal mines during the quarter, and the ramp up of Poitrel continued.
The Hay Point Coal terminal in Queensland attained record annual and quarterly throughput, partially mitigating the impact of port constraints at third party facilities „o which are expected to continue.
In New South Wales, infrastructure constraints in the Hunter Valley continue to affect coal sales from that area.
In South Africa, coal production will be lower in the 2008 financial year due to the sale of Koornfontein and reduced output from the Douglas underground mine as it approaches shut down in the middle of the 2008 calendar year.
