Bumi Barito Mineral Coal Mine

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Bumi Barito Mineral Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Sumber Barito, Murung Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Bumi Barito Mineral Coal Mine	Sumber Barito, Murung Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia	-0.370821, 114.067904 (approximate)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	2022	–

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
2.62	–	–	Surface	Open Pit	149.8	50*	767*

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
20.2	–	266.6	Tumbang Tuan	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
PT Bumi Barito Mineral	Cokal [60%]; Pacific Samudra Perkasa [25%]; Others [15%]	Australia

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

Background

The Bumi Barito Mineral coal mine (BBM) is a proposed opencast mine located 60 kilometers northwest of the town of Puruk Cahu, Indonesia.

The mine is listed under construction as of 2016 with a propsed expansion to 6 million tons per annum. The expansion is presumed operational, although production has not yet hit those targets. The mine is owned 60% by Australian-listed Cokal Limited (previously known as Altera Resources Ltd) and 40% by the Indonesian government.

According to the project's feasibility study, there is a total of 261 metric tons (Mt) of coal resources of at BBM, comprised of 10.5Mt measured, 13.5Mt indicated and 237Mt inferred resources. The resources were estimated to be 90 percent coking coal and 10 percent pulverised coal injection.

"The low ash coking coal will be produced from shallow opencut mining extraction using trucks and shovels," according to Cokal's website. "The coal will travel ~700 kilometers down the Barito River using river barging techniques."

• Owner: Bumi Barito Mineral
• Parent company: 60% Cokal Limited (previously known as Altera Resources Ltd) and 40% Indonesian Government
• Location: Rumintin, Tumbang Tuan, Sumber Barito, Murung Raya Regency, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
• GPS coordinates: -0.370821, 114.067904
• Mine status: Operating
• Start year:’
• Mineable reserves: 20.2 million tonnes
• Coal type: bituminous
• Mine size: 19,920 hectares
• Mine type: Surface
• Production: 2.62 million tons per annum
• Equipment:
• Number of employees:

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