Burton Lenton Coal Mine
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Burton Lenton Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Queensland, Australia.
Location
Table 1: Project-level location details
| Mine Name | Location | Coordinates (WGS 84) |
|---|---|---|
| Burton Lenton Coal Mine | Queensland, Australia | -21.6210779, 148.1886138 (exact) |
The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:
Project Details
Table 2: Project status
| Status | Status Detail | Project Type | Opening Year | Closing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating[1] | – | New | 2023[1] | – |
Table 3: Operation details
| Capacity (Mtpa) | Production (Mtpa) | Year of Production | Mine Type | Mining Method | Mine Size (km2) | Mine Depth (m) | Workforce Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0.975[1] | 2023[1] | Surface | – | 48.95 | 60* | 200* |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | – | 204 | Mackay | Bituminous | Thermal & Met | – |
Table 5: Ownership and parent company
| Owner | Parent Company | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|
| Bowen Coking Coal Ltd | Bowen Coking Coal | Australia |
Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset.
Background
Burton Lenton Coal Mine is an open-cut coal mine in Central Queensland, Australia. It is composed of two neighboring coal sites: Burton, an open-cut coal mine which contains three unmined pits; and the adjacent and previously undeveloped Lenton coal deposit.[2]
Together, the Burton Lenton mine and Broadmeadow East Coal Mine comprise the Burton Complex, owned by the Australian-based coal exploration company, Bowen Coking Coal.[3]
As of May 2023, the Burton Complex officially reopened when the Burton mine section, which had been in care-and-maintenance since 2016, restarted operations.[4] The Burton Lenton mine is an amalgamation of the already operating Burton mine (previously owned by Peabody Energy) and the proposed New Lenton mine project (previously owned by New Hope Coal).[5]
In 2017, Peabody Energy sold the then-mothballed Burton Mine to New Hope's Lenton Joint Venture. But it wasn't until 2021 when Bowing Coking Coal Ltd. acquired 100% of the shares in New Lenton Coal Pty Ltd., a subsidiary of New Hope which owned a 90% interest in the Lenton joint venture which featured Burton Mine and Lenton project (Formosa Plastics Group of Taiwan held the remaining 10%), that the two projects were joined.[6] Following the purchase, Bowen Coking Coal changed the project name from "New Lenton" to "Burton Lenton."[7]
In May 2023, the Burton Complex officially reopened when the Burton mine section, which had been in care-and-maintenance since 2016, restarted operations.[4] According to the Queensland Government, the Burton Complex is already producing 1.1 million tonnes per year with coal transported to the nearby Dalrymple Bay Coal terminal for shipping overseas.[4]
- Operator: Bowen Coking Coal
- Owner: Bowen Coking Coal
- Location: 120 kilometers south west of Mackay, in Central Queensland, Australia[8]
- GPS Coordinates: -21.6210779, 148.1886138 (Exact)
- Status: Operating
- Production Capacity: 2 Mtpa, increasing to 8 Mtpa[8]
- Total Resource: 204 (64 Mt Burton; 140 Mt Lenton)<[2]
- Mineable Reserves: 21 Mt[9]
- Coal Type: Coking, pulverized coal injection (PCI), and thermal coal
- Mine Size: 4,895 hectares
- Mine Type: Surface
- Start Year: 2023
- Source of Financing:
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240206173814/https://www.investi.com.au/api/announcements/bcb/e499eef3-a6a.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 06 February 2024.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Annual Report 2022, page 15, Bowen Coking Coal, accessed March 2023.
- ↑ Annual Report 2022, Bowen Coking Coal, accessed March 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Mine reopening means more good jobs for Central Queensland", Queensland Government website, 4 May 2023.
- ↑ Angie Tomlinson, "New Hope gets moving on Lenton", Australia's Mining Monthly, 2 July 2008.
- ↑ Jessica Casey, "Bowen Coking Coal completes acquisition of Burton Mine", World Coal, 1 July 2022.
- ↑ Burton Lenton, Bowen Coking Coal, company website, accessed December 2022.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedlinks - ↑ 2019 Annual Report, New Hope Group, Archived from the original on 7 Mar. 2020, Accessed March 2023.
