Narrabri pushes up Whitehaven sustaining capex

WHITEHAVEN Coal will have to spend about $40 million on sustaining capital expenditure, with the majority of that going to the Narrabri longwall mine in New South Wales.

Narrabri pushes up Whitehaven sustaining capex

Mains development costs in Narrabri North will increase to about $30 million per year.

23 August 2018
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Whitehaven's open cut mines' sustaining capex will be about $1.50 per tonne of run-of-mine coal production, far lower than the Narrabri sustaining capex, which has increased to about $3.

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