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Red Hill Mine Case

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While BMA has contact to a number of existing and prospective coal resources in the Bowen Basin, the Red Hill Mining Lease Project supply has been recognized for future expansion on the basis that:
• Broadmeadow panels are to extend into MLA70421. High quality product coking coal exists within the projected panel postponements. Without the statutory approvals and transformation of tenure, mining cannot start or extend across into MLA70421.
• The resource is a high quality resource that will meet existing and expected future market demand.
The Red Hill Mining Lease as shown in Figure 1 is located adjacent to the existing Goonyella Riverside and Broadmeadow (GRB) mine complex in the Bowen Basin, about 135 kilometres south-west of Mackay and 20 kilometres north of Moranbah, Queensland.

Describe the nature of the project
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• A future Red Hill Mine (RHM) underground expansion selection located to the east of the GRM complex.
The three project elements defined above are collectively mentioned to as ‘the project’.
The project is of strategic importance to the planning and improvement of existing operations within and about the existing GRB mine complex. It is projected that development work for mining of panels 14, 15 and 16 related with the BRM will commence in Financial Year 2016. The mining of the Broadmeadow extension will utilise existing mine organization and extend the life of mine by around one year.
The GRM incremental development option refers to those project undertakings which are located within the existing GRB mine complex and connected with the proposed RHM underground expansion option.
Timeframes for distribution of the GRM project components will be subject to the last timing for beginning, the rate of expansion and scale of future manufacture for the RHM underground expansion option once determined by the project

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