MINES

Narrabri on track to switch to 400m panel

THE expansion to the 400m wide panel at Whitehaven Coal’s Narrabri mine in New South Wales is on schedule to start in the first half of next year.

Lou Caruana
Whitehaven Coal's Narrabri longwall mine in New South Wales.

Whitehaven Coal's Narrabri longwall mine in New South Wales.

Development of LW107, the next longwall production panel is almost complete.

Development of LW108 has started and roadway development is on target to maintain positive longwall float and continuity of longwall production at the mine.

A single longwall change for this financial year out is scheduled for H2 FY2017. The current longwall panel, LW06 will be the last planned 300m wide panel at the mine.

Narrabri produced 2.353 million tonnes ROM coal in the September quarter, 136% higher than in the pcp when a longwall

 

change out occurred. Saleable coal production was 2.223Mt compared to 1.573Mt, an increase of 41% on the previous corresponding period.

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