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Takitimu Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Takitimu Coal Mine Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand -45.962159, 168.03026 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status Status Detail Opening Year Closing Year
Operating

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.
Capacity (Mtpa) Production (Mtpa) Year of Production Mine Type Mining Method Mine Size (km2) Mine Depth (m) Workforce Size
0.222[1] 2022[1] Surface Open Pit 50* 122*

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt) Year of Total Reserves Recorded Total Resources (Mt) Coalfield Coal Type Coal Grade Primary Consumer/ Destination
0.7[2] 2023[2] 2 Ohai Subbituminous Thermal

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner Parent Company Headquarters
Bathurst Coal Bathurst Resources Ltd [100.0%] New Zealand

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker April 2024 release and the September supplement.

Background

Takitimu Mine (also referred to as Nightcaps), is an opencast sub-bituminous mine located near Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand. The mine is owned and operated by Takitimu Coal Limited, a subsidiary of Bathurst Resources. Location: Near Nightcaps, Southland, approx 60km northwest of Invercargill
Coordinates: -45.962159,168.03026
Coal field: Ohai
Background: The mines at Nightcaps were the main source of coal in Southland until mines at nearby Ohai opened in the 1920s.[3] In 2011, Bathurst Resources acquired the Eastern Resources Group (a subsidiary of Australian-based Galilee Energy), which at that stage owned the Takitimu mine. In July 2012, Bathurst announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Takitimu Coal Limited, had completed the strategic acquisition of property adjoining its operations at a cost of NZ14 million. As the Takitimu mine becomes exhausted it is being extended into the nearby Coaldale block on the newly purchased land to the west. Bathurst expects that this acquisition will see the production of 2 million tones of sub-bituminous coal.[4]
Current owner: Takitimu Coal Ltd, a subsidiary of Bathurst Resources[5]
Status: Operating
Production capacity: 0.215 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa).
Estimated recoverable reserves: Expected that the resource will be depleting in the fourth quarter of 2012.[6] Some of the overburden from Coaldale will be placed directly into the exhausted Takitimu pit to begin the rehabilitation there.[7]
Mining technique: Opencast
Type of coal: Sub-bituminous thermal
Solid fuel calorific value (gross) 18.90 MJ/kg (Range for NZ coal 15.25–31.95 MJ/kg)[8]
Market information: Coal from the mine is used for local dairy and food processing plants, schools and hospitals.
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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240302075239/https://www.nzpam.govt.nz/nz-industry/nz-minerals/minerals-statistics/coal/operating-mines/. Archived from the original on 02 March 2024. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. 2.0 2.1 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240302082730/https://bathurst.co.nz/assets/reports/Annual-Report-2024.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 02 March 2024. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Te Ara, "Opencast mine, Nightcaps", accessed December 2012
  4. Bathurst Resources, "Helmsec Hong Kong Forum, March 2012", accessed December 2012
  5. Ministry of Economic Development, "Operating coal mines", accessed March 2012
  6. Bathurst Resources, "Presentation to HELSEC Hong Kong Forum", March 2012, page 13
  7. Bathurst Resources, "Bathurst Newsletter Summer 2012", accessed December 2012
  8. New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals, "Operating coal mines", Ministry of Economic Development Website, accessed December 2022