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Hail Creek Mine

Mining operations at Hail Creek Mine are conducted using conventional dragline and truck/hydraulic excavator techniques.

Hail Creek Mine is an open cut coal operation, mining two high quality coking coal products used in the production of steel. The coal is mined from two seams - the Elphinstone Seam, with an average thickness of 6.4 metres and the Hynds Seam, averaging 8.3 metres in thickness.

The coal is mined by using excavators, which load the coal onto large dump trucks capable of holding up to 240 tonnes of coal. The coal is then crushed before being transported on a conveyor to the coal handling and preparation plant, which removes rock, ash and impurities from the mined coal.

An expansion project to increase production from 5.5 million tonnes to 8 million tonnes per annum was completed in 2006.

Hail Creek Mine produces a low volatile, low sulphur hard coking coal with low oven wall pressure.

Hail Creek Mine has marketable reserves of 178.6 million tonnes as at 31 December 2006, and in 2006 produced a total of 4.54 million tonnes of prime hard coking coal.