Moranbah South Coal Mine

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Moranbah South is owned by a 50:50 unincorporated Joint Venture between Anglo Coal (Grosvenor) Pty Ltd and Exxaro Australia Pty Ltd, with Anglo being the manager. The mine was approved in Nov 2014 but Anglo advised construction will not start until market conditions improve.

The mining licence covers approximately 17,550 ha and the mine is an underground mine, using longwall and bord and pillar mining methods. Coal will be washed and processed on site, and product coal will be transported from site by rail. Abbot Point is the preferred Coal Terminal for export, with Dalrymple Bay and Dudgeon Point being alternatives.

Development started in 2014 and the first longwall coal production will commence in 2017, following the construction of underground mine access and initial development works. The mine life will be in excess of 30 years which will be followed by a decommissioning and rehabilitation period. Coking coal for export would be mined at a rate of up to 18 million tonnes per annum of run-of-mine (ROM) coal with an expected life of mine (LOM) of more than 30 years.

Access to the underground workings will be via box cut excavations and inclined drifts from the surface to the workings. Separate box cuts and drifts will provide access to the longwall and bord and pillar mining areas. The box cut and drift portals will be located new the surface and processing facilities.

Coal will be conveyed from the underground workings to a run of mine (ROM) stockpile on the surface, then coal will be crushed and screened at sizing stations. That coal will be conveyed to the coal plant where it will be washed and sent to the export stoockpiles, then transferred to the train loadout.