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BHP BILLITON SET TO BUILD NEW COAL MINE FOR $US216MLN.
SYDNEY, Dec 3 Asia Pulse - BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) has approved the construction of a new Australian coal mine, with a capital expenditure outlay estimated at $US126 million.
The Dendrobium metalurgical coal mine in the Illawarra region of New South Wales will have the capacity to produce 5.2 million tonnes of raw coal per annum.
The BHP Billiton owned and operated Dendrobium mine will be a valuable source of high quality metallurgical coal, which is used in a coking coal blend for domestic steel producers including the BHP Steel Port Kembla Steelworks and export markets.
Illawarra Coal is progressively rationalising its mines into increasingly more productive and cost effective operations.
The first rationalisation occurred with Cordeaux Colliery placed on care and maintenance in April 2001, BHP Billiton said.
Dendrobium would replace the ...
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