Australian miner Bowen Coking Coal expects a quick ramp-up after sending off the first shipment of 35,000t of ultra-low volatile pulverised coal injection product from its Bluff opencut mine.
The mine in Qld’s southern Bowen Basin is expected to reach steady-state ROM production of 80,000-100,000tpm by end-Aug, maintaining the 1-1.2Mtpa rate over 4-6 years.
Bluff coal is washed and loaded on rail at the recommissioned Cook Colliery for transport to the RG Tanna Coal Terminal at Gladstone.
The initial shipment was sold to Taiwan conglomerate Formosa Plastics Group by Bowen’s 50-50 marketing JV with specialist metallurgical coal trader M Resources.