Queensland Coal Mines/Sites
74
Suttor Creek
Bowen
Operator
Newlands Coal Pty Ltd
Principal Holder NCA Joint Venture
Phone: +61 7 3115 5300 Fax:
Location
14km west of Glenden. Approximately 17km south of the Newlands
railhead.
Coal Measures:
Major Beneficial
Owner/s
Main tenements
Geology
Faulted sequence containing Rangal, Fort Cooper and Moranbah
Coal Measures of Late Permian age. Regional dip is to the east at 5
to 15 degrees. The Leichhardt seam (the only mineable seam)
occurs in the Rangal Coal Measures & has economic open cut
resources identified which are virtually doubled by a NW trending
reverse fault. The Vermont and Girrah seams are also present but
are high in inherent ash. Five coal seams known as Seams 1 to 5 are
present in the underlying Moranbah Coal Measures with limited
tonnages of coking coal identified in Seams 3 and 4. They partly
subcrop beneath thick Tertiary basalt in the western portion of the
area & have also been partly intruded, limiting any economic
potential.
Mining Method
Rangal
Transport
Preparation plant At Newlands comprising Batac jigs with froth flotation to recover fines.
Product Coals
Comments
In June 2003, MIM shareholders approved a scheme of arrangement by which Swiss-based commodities group Xstrata Plc acquired
the assets of MIM Holdings Limited For statistical purposes coal produced at Suttor Creek is included in Newlands production.
Working
Status:
Pit
Type:
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Synonyms:
Address
Level 10, Riverside Centre 123 Eagle St
BRISBANE Qld 4000
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Not known
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Not known
Size*:
Production
0 Million tonnes per annum (2003 - 04).
GPO Box 2587
BRISBANE
Qld 4001
Street
Postal
Fort Cooper
Xstrata Plc
Itochu Corporation
EPC 727
ML 4761
Coal Quality
Brand
Moisture Ash
Specific Sulphur
Total (ad)
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Volatile
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Fixed
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CSN
Suttor Creek
2.6
14
28.66
0.37
26.7
56.7
1.5
* Sites: Small < 50Mt, Medium 51 to 150Mt, Large 151 to 500Mt, Very Large > 500Mt measured and indicated
Mines: Small < 2Mt, Medium > 2Mt < 10Mt, Large > 5Mt < 10Mt, Very Large > 10Mt annual saleable coal production
Data updated March 2005