UNDERGROUND

Yancoal primed for expansion

YANCOAL has various brownfield and greenfield opportunities available following its US$2.69 billion acquisition of Rio Tinto’s Coal & Allied thermal coal assets in New South Wales Hunter Valley and the expansion of its Moolarben mine, the company said in a presentation.

 In 2017, production at the Moolarben open cut and underground mines achieved total run-of-mine production of 14.7 million tonnes.

In 2017, production at the Moolarben open cut and underground mines achieved total run-of-mine production of 14.7 million tonnes.

It said one of those would be to maximise the potential of its Moolarben open cut operations.   Located within the western coalfields of New South Wales, Moolarben is a world-class open-cut and underground...

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