FIRST production from the 400m wide longwall face at Whitehaven Coal’s Narrabri mine in New South Wales is scheduled for April 2017, according to CEO Paul Flynn.
The company plans to extend the longwall panels from Narrabri North into Narrabri South lease, he told the 2016 Global Metals and Mining Conference.
“Drilling is scheduled in FY2017 in Narrabri South tenement to convert existing resources into reserves,” he said.
The mine permitted to produce 11 million tonnes per annum of ROM coal.
It produced 3.5Mt ROM in the first half of the FY2016 (which included a longwall move) and 8.3Mt ROM in CY2015.
FOB costs at Narrabri averaged $49/t in H1 FY2016.
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