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A research report has spotlighted the health risks of coal dust for people and communities living in the Hunter Valley. The Hunter region has the highest concentration of coal mining and coal burning in close proximity to population centres and farmland in Australia, and approximately 16% of the Upper Hunter Valley is covered by open-cut coal mines.
After 18 years in care and maintenance, the Dartbrook coal mine in the Hunter Valley is poised for a restart, Australian Pacific Coal (AQC) interim CEO Ayten Saridas announced on Monday. The ...
This exciting project was made possible by a grant from the Coal & Allied Community Development Fund. It celebrates and commemorates the lives of the people of the coal mining communities in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, and shows the close links between the people and the places in which they lived and worked. Read …
Glencore has signed $1.13bn in agreements with Yancoal Australia to acquire a 49% interest in the Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) coal mine in New South Wales, Australia.. The HVO mining operations form part of Yancoal's proposed acquisition of Coal & Allied (C&A) from Rio Tinto.
Transforming Mining Land in the Hunter Valley The Hunter is Australia's largest regional economy, with strong foundations in mining, agriculture, defence and broad-based services. While the region has undergone significant structural change over the past three decades, it now faces another major adjustment as economies lower emissions and …
A 2014 report for the NSW Minerals Council estimated Hunter coal contributes in total $6.3 billion annually to the state's economy, or almost half of the total mining industry's output in the ...
The mine, in the Hunter Valley region, was placed on care and maintenance in late 2006 because of operational difficulties and lower coal prices.
The People and Place: Coal and Community project celebrates and commemorates the lives of the people of the coal mining communities in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, showing the close links …
Papers and newsclippings relating to early history of coal mining in Hunter Region; J & A Brown, Minmi; Mr Harold Greenway; Brambles; Mr A E Shaw; Coal and Allied; Mr E F Hewett and a xerox copy of The Coal Mines of Newcastle, NSW – Their Rise and Progress by G H Kingswell, 1890, 1890 – 1973. ... Hunter Valley Coal Mines, Coal …
The biggest regional concentrations of coal mining employment in 2021 (using Census data) were in Mackay–Isaac–Whitsunday at 13,335 (up 3,380 or 34.0% from 2016), …
The Mt Arthur Coal open-cut energy coal mine is located five kilometres south of Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales adjacent to the traditional lands of the Wanaruah people. The mine employs around …
Gillespie and Bennett (2012) conducted a similar CBA in the Hunter Valley, a coal mining area in New South Wales, Australia. They concluded that "the present value of the benefits of continued ...
and social impacts of open-cut coal mining in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia Robert Gillespie a & Jeff Bennett b a Gillespie Economics, Sydney, Australia b Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Version of record first published: 15 Aug 2012.
Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) is a large-scale open cut operation that produces some of the highest quality thermal and semi-soft metallurgical coal in the world. It is a joint venture between Yancoal (51%) and …
The Dartbrook mine will initially use only the dry plant facilities. Credit: Анатолий Стафичук from Pixabay. Australian Pacific Coal (AQC) and its joint venture (JV) partner Tetra Resources have produced coal to the surface stockpile at Dartbrook coal mine in the Hunter Valley in New ...
From January to August 2023, combined coal sales for the largest six mines in NSW grew by more than 20%. Bengalla, Hunter Valley Operations, Moolarben OC, Mt Arthur Coal, Mt Thorley Warkworth and Wilpinjong are all open-cut mines that produce thermal coal – but why opt to enlarge rather than take on new assets?
This article questions the sustainability of open-cut coal mining in the Hunter Valley region of Australia. The issue of sustainability is examined in relation to the economic, ecological and social implications of the Hunter Valley's open-cut coal mining industry. The article demonstrates that critical social and ecological ramifications have …
The facts on HVO's proposal to continue mining. This opinion piece by HVO General Manager Dave Foster was published in the Newcastle Herald on July 2. I am the general manager of the Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) coal …
Mt Arthur coal mine in the Hunter Valley. The open-cut mining practices at Mt Arthur, essentially involving the removal of large amounts of rock from the earth's …
The economic implications of open-cut coal mining in the Hunter Valley Coal mining has developed in the Hunter Valley to provide a critical energy supply to Australia and other coal-dependent economies, particularly in Asia. While coal is fundamental to the current structure of Australia's domestic energy requirements, it is also crucial to ...
Mining and production. Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) is a multi-pit open cut mine, using a dragline truck and shovel method. The operation's employees work in shifts to keep the mine operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ... In 2000 Coal & Allied merged the Howick and Hunter Valley mines to create HVO. The Lemington mine, which began ...
With coal mines and power plants in close proximity to human habitat and pastoral land, Australia's Hunter Valley provides a natural laboratory for exploring these issues in local coal mining ...
Yesterday's 4.5-magnitude earthquake at Muswellbrook, in the New South Wales Upper Hunter, was the latest in a series of moderate-sized events near the town in just over a fortnight. A 4.7 ...
It could work alongside the already proposed Hunter Valley Transition Authority. The community suggested increasing coal-mining royalties to pay for this co-ordinated work. Mining companies would then be the ones that foot the clean-up bill. In NSW, the royalty rate for open-cut coal is just 8.2% of the resale value. That's too low …
The NSW Hunter Valley is often characterised as "Australia's major coal exporting region" (Evans and Phelan, 2016, 330), with a history of coal mining dating back to the 19th century (Connor, 2016 ...
Coal mining continues to form the bedrock of the Hunter's economy … Coal mining in the Hunter is vital to the continued strength of the state's economy …6 [Coal mining is] an industry that this state cannot do without.7 The mining industry is fundamental to the success of the NSW economy and
The following two diagrams from Branagan's Geology and Coal Mining in the Hunter Valley 1791 – 1861 provide further detail regarding Newcastle's early coalmines and coal industry: The following two diagrams from A.A. Atkinson's 1902 Geological Survey of New South Wales – Working coal under the River Hunter, the Pacific Ocean and its ...
Bulga Coal was the biggest landholding operation in the Hunter Valley, and produced about 12mtpa of semisoft coking coal and thermal coal making it a tier one …
The United Wambo open-cut coal mine is a major coal mining project located in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia. It is a joint venture project by Grencore and Peabody Energy to integrate the existing open-cut operations at the Wambo coal mine with a new open-cut mine at the adjacent United coal mine that …