Approval of Moolarben’s Stage Two project will extend the life of Yancoal Australia’s operations in the Mid-Western Region and potentially create up to 120 new full-time jobs, Yancoal Australia CEO Reinhold Schmidt said this week. The New South Wales Planning and Assessment Commission (NSWPAC) has approved the application, allowing Moolarben to expand its mining operation…Read more →
The Planning Assessment Commission has approved the expansion of Yancoal’s Moolarben coal mine. The expansion will include two underground mines, a third open cut mine, an extension to current open pit mines as well as supporting infrastructure. This will allow Moolarben to produce 17 million tonnes per annum ROM until 2037 and create 120 new…Read more →
The NSW Planning Assessment Commission has given conditional approval for large extensions of two coal mines north-west of Sydney, adding potentially 31 million tonnes of extra coal output a year. The PAC on Monday said it had approved the expansion of the Moolarben Coal Project north-east of Mudgee, potentially more than doubling approved annual output…Read more →
Moolarben Coal’s 2014 production was up one per cent on the previous year according to Yancoal’s quarterly update announced to the Australian Securities Exchange this week. For the year ending December 2014, Moolarben produced 6.36 million tonnes of saleable coal and an increase was attributed to a “product optimisation strategy introduced in the previous quarter”…Read more →
