Whitehaven gets approval for Vickery development
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – The New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment has given coal miner Whitehaven Coal its approval to start the development of the 4.5-million-tonne-a-year Vickery coal project, in the Gunnedah basin.
The project was estimated to have a mine life of some 30 years.
MD and CEO Paul Flynn said on Monday that the approval for the Vickery project was a significant step forward for Whitehaven, as it provided another growth option for the company following the development of the Maules Creek mine.
“Whitehaven can now seek to form a joint venture for this long-life development, which will produce Maules Creek quality coal,” he said.
The Vickery project has a recoverable reserve of some 204-million tonnes contained within a resource of 537-million tonnes. Flynn has noted that the large size of the deposit provided the opportunity for Whitehaven to expand future production at Vickery to around eight-million tonnes a year, subject to government approval.
Coal would be transported along an existing haul road to Whitehaven’s Gunnedah coal handing and preparation plant. With infrastructure already in place, the Vickery project was expected to become a low capital start-up operation for Whitehaven.
However, Flynn noted that an expanded production profile would require a larger capital outlay for a coal handling and preparation plant, and for a rail loop.
The timing for the start-up of the Vickery project was yet to be determined, but was unlikely to occur before the Maules Creek project was fully ramped up to its 13-million tonnes a year run-of-mine rate, Flynn said.
Maules Creek started production in August this year and was expected to rail its first saleable coal in March next year.
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