BHP Mitsubishi Alliance

From Global Energy Monitor

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA), which is a 50-50 joint venture between BHP and Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan, formerly known as BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance. BMA accounts for more than one-quarter of Australia's annual coal exports.[1] BMA is Australia’s largest coal producer and supplier of

seaborne metallurgical coal.[2]

Coal mines and projects

BMA owned and operated mines are:[3]

BMA also manages two coal mines -- the South Walker Creek mine and the Poitrel mine -- for BHP Mitsui Coal.[3]

In September 2008 BMA bought 100% of the Saraji East project from New Hope Corporation. The project is an undeveloped metallurgical coal project located near Dysart in the Bowen Basin in Queensland.

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Sources

  1. ↑ Pui-Kwan Tse, The Mineral Industry of Australia: 2006, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, May 2008.
  2. ↑ BHP, "BHP Billiton Annual Report 2019", Page 68, May 2019.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 BHP Billiton, "Assets", BHP Billiton website, accessed December 2012.

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