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The Upper Hunter Mining Dialogue is a collaboration between community mining business and government working together to address the cumulative impacts of mining and make the Upper Hunter a better place for all to live The Dialogue s participants represent a wide range of stakeholders who work together and through our Working Groups and
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Hunter Valley Coal Report The Hunter Valley Coal Report has been servicing the domestic and international coal mining communities for over twenty five years keeping readers in touch with the events which effect them directly Mine expansions new developments production statistics contract and shipping details port conditions
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The Hunter Valley is at the crossroads For the past decade we have been subjected to a relentless string of new and expanded coal mine projects that have pushed the impacts of mining to a crisis point Air pollution smothers our towns proud rural villages are being pushed to breaking point and our non mining industries struggle to survive
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For more than a century the NSW Hunter Valley has been a coal mining hub The landscape is pockmarked with open cut mines and the proposed expansion of one of these mines has divided the community
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This study is a strategic assessment of coal mining potential and constraints in the Upper Hunter Valley The study fulfils a commitment made by the Government in January 2024 which followed approval for a 25 000 tonne bulk sample of coal from a deposit at Bickham south of Murrurundi in the Upper Hunter Valley The proposal for the bulk
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Coal Seam Gas Exclusion Zones Submission Hunter Valley 3 Foreword Closing the loop on CSG Mining in the Hunter Valley When it comes to coal seam gas SG mining protecting Australia s most visited wine tourism region in its entirety not in parts is of paramount importance And the time to do it is now
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The Hunter Coal Festival is a celebration of the Upper Hunter community a celebration of the co existence between the people and industries involved in the Hunter s largest economic force The festival focuses on the Upper Hunter mining areas and includes community events and functions mine site tours and a careers day
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Continuation of mining to the end of FY2030 will afford eight years to work with our people state and federal governments and local communities in the Hunter Valley region on a transition
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many years the mining of Hunter coal was done underground but since the 1970s the sub surface has been transformed by over 500 square kilometres of open cut mining Upper Hunter communities north of Muswellbrook have so far escaped open cut coalmining Their farming economies have been traditionally based on grazing viticulture dairying
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There are several NSW regions with large thermal coal deposits and world class mining operations extracting coal for local use and for export markets There are operating mines south of Newcastle near Lake Macquarie further northwest of Newcastle in the Hunter Valley and Gunnedah regions and near Lithgow and Mudgee to the west of Sydney
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CIMIC owned Thiess has secured a $ billion mining services contract at the Mt Arthur coal operation in the Hunter Valley October 15 2024 0 comment Yancoal reaps rewards from Rio Tinto acquisition Yancoal s acquisition of Rio Tinto s Coal Allied business unit in New South Wales last year has paid off for the company August 17 2024 0 comment
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Aug 5 2022Hunter Valley August 2024 Last month we were honoured to attend the NSW Mining Health Safety Environment Community HSEC Awards alongside hundreds of industry representatives and celebrate innovations and achievements in our industry Nine finalists had been selected for their achievements and breakthroughs in four categories health
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From now on Glencore s combined portfolio of mines in the Hunter Valley will have a production capacity of 69 million metric tons per year of high quality energy coal which the company states
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The Mount Pleasant coal mine is an open pit coal mining operation located near Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales NSW Australia Producing since December 2024 the coal mine is owned and operated by Mount Pleasant Joint Venture comprising MACH Energy Australia 95% and Japan Coal Development Australia JCDA 5%
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About Malabar Malabar Resources Malabar is an independent Australian owned resources company based in the Hunter Valley New South Wales The Spur Hill Underground Project exploration licence EL 7429 The Maxwell Solar Farm with capacity for substantial expansion and Agricultural properties including the Merton Vineyard
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This exciting project was made possible by a grant from the Coal Allied Community Development Fund It celebrates and commemorates the lives of the people of the coal mining communities in the Hunter Valley New South Wales Australia and shows the close links between the people and the places in which they lived and worked
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These calls are not new in the Hunter Valley however mobilisation against the coal industry is increasing due to the considerable expansion of coal production over the last decade concern about health and environmental impacts including the contribution of coal consumption to climate change and proposals for at least 21 additional mines See more
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The HVCCC s mission is to plan and co ordinate the co operative daily operation and long term capacity alignment of the Hunter Valley Coal Chain Organisation Related Posts Local mining leader recognised at awards Apr 26 2024
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Vineyards and racehorse breeders in the Hunter have long battled against the threat of coal and methane gas mining but now the New South Wales government is considering the draft of a new amended State Environmental Planning Policy SEPP
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Ulan Coal is located near the village of Ulan in central west New South Wales about 45 kilometres north east of Mudgee Partnerships Ulan Coal operations is 100% owned and managed by Glencore and comprises two underground mining operations Ulan Underground and Ulan West Operations iuoe benefit funds payer id spy birthday party printables egress window town of oyster bay what to drink
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Thiess first began mining at Mount Pleasant as scheduled on 20 November 2024 following a successful five month mobilisation period Located from Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter Valley New South Wales the Mount Pleasant Operation is a greenfield open cut coal mine with an estimated 474 million tonnes of reserves to be mined
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Hunter Valley Operations HVO is a joint venture between Yancoal 51% and Glencore 49% which is independently managed on behalf of the JV partners Continuation project The HVO Continuation Project aims to recover further coal resources within the existing mining tenements at HVO extending the life of mine from 2024 to 2024 at HVO North and from 2024 to 2024 at HVO South
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recently announced it will build a grid scale battery with capacity up to 1 200 MW within the Hunter Economic Zone HEZ precinct at Kurri Kurri in Australia s Hunter Valley coal mining region under a new 30 year lease agreement with the Hunter Investment Corporation
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Aim An analysis of general practice data for rural communities in close proximity to coal mining and coal fired power generation in the Hunter Valley region of NSW was conducted to identify unusual patterns of illness Methods Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health general practice consultation data from the Hunter Valley region for 1998 2024 were compared with data from all other rural
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This strategic assessment will look at the impacts of new and expanded coal mining on biodiversity in the Upper Hunter Valley It will document biodiversity values within the region as a whole and enable cumulative impacts to biodiversity to be considered across the indicative assessment area Figure 1 Location of Upper Hunter Valley NSW
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The future of coal is obviously questionable and we have to prepare for that says Roy Green chair of the port which is a gateway to the Hunter Valley a coal mining region 280km north of
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AUSTRALIAN Environment Minister Ian Campbell has today hit back at the Australian Labor Party s decision last night to vote against coal mining in the Hunter
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Hunter Valley August 2024 Last month we were honoured to attend the NSW Mining Health Safety Environment Community HSEC Awards alongside hundreds of industry representatives and celebrate innovations and achievements in our industry Nine finalists had been selected for their achievements and breakthroughs in four categories health
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The coal miners and producers of the Hunter Valley needed better ways to transport their goods to the ships As the mining industry in the Hunter Valley grew so did rail transport The Newcastle wharf and the Carrington dyke were developed The development of steam power using coal as fuel allowed for faster delivery of coal
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In an effort to preserve thinning margins at Mt Arthur BHP has been aggressively pursuing high grade portions of the mine at the expense of its future life Once capable of producing up to 32 million tonnes of thermal coal each year the Hunter Valley mine is tipped to produce only 13 to 15 million tonnes of export coal this financial year
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