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[2]BHP Billiton Approves Caval Ridge Mine Project
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November 01, 2011
BHP Billiton today approved development of the Caval Ridge Mine project and
expansion of the Peak Downs Mine in the northern Bowen Basin in Central
Queensland, Australia.
The initial project will add 8 million tonnes per
year capacity (100 per cent basis) in export metallurgical coal, with the
expectation of a rapid, low cost expansion to 10 million tonnes per year.
This additional 2 million tonnes per year will only require the addition of
mining equipment.
This expansion has not yet been permitted.
The total investment in the initial project is US$4.2 billion, of which BHP
Billitonâs share is US$2.1 billion.
The resource life of the initial project
is expected to be greater than 60 years1.
First coal is expected in calendar
year 2014.
The new Caval Ridge Mine will have the capacity to produce 5.5 million
tonnes per year.
The Peak Downs Mine will expand production by 2.5 million
tonnes per year.
The investment will include construction of a new coal
handling and preparation plant at Caval Ridge to process production from the
Caval Ridge Mine and Peak Downs expansion.
Coal from the Peak Downs
expansion will be transported by conveyor to the new plant.
The Peak Downs
Mine lies to the immediate south of the new Caval Ridge Mine.
The Caval Ridge Mine will be an open cut dragline and truck and shovel
operation, with coal railed to the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA)
Hay Point Coal Terminal.
The project has received all necessary regulatory
approvals.
BHP Billiton Metallurgical Coal President, Hubie van Dalsen, said: âThis
investment in the Caval Ridge Mine was foreshadowed in March of this year
when BHP Billiton announced investments in the new 4.5 million tonne per
year Daunia mine, the life extension of the Broadmeadow mine and the 11
million tonne per year expansion of the Hay Point Coal Terminal.
âThis is a continuation of BHP Billitonâs strategy of investing in large,
low cost, expandable mines with long lives.
Additional expansion projects
are being advanced to follow this investment in due course,â he said.
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[4]BHP Billiton Production Report for the Quarter Ended 30 September 2011
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October 19, 2011
[5]BHP Billiton Exploration and Development Report for the Quarter Ended 30
September 2011
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October 19, 2011
[6]Significant Commitment to Olympic Dam Expansion
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http://www.bhpbilliton.com/home/investors/news/Pages/Articles/Significant-Commitment-to-Olympic-Dam-Expansion.aspx
October 12, 2011
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