Anglo American has restarted underground mining at its Moranbah North coal mine in N Queensland, Australia, after it withdrew its workforce from the mine following a reading of elevated gases on Feb 20, Reuters reports.
Mining development activities at its Grosvenor mine, in central Queensland’s Bowen Basin, also resumed this week, as part of the mine’s staged restart of underground mining operations following an explosion in May 2020 that critically injured 5 workers.
The 2 mines accounted for almost half of Anglo American’s met coal, or steel-making coal, production in 2019. Grosvenor produced 4.7Mt in 2019 and Moranbah North 4.43Mt of met coal in 2020, down from 2019’s 6.15Mt.