BURTON LENTON (ML 700053, ML 70337, ML 700054, ML 70109, ML 70260, EPC 766, EPC 1675, EPC 865, EPC 857, MDL 349, MDL 315) – BCB 90%
The Burton Complex is located approximately 160km west of the major coastal city of Mackay, and around 50km south of Bowen’s Hillalong Project in the northern part of the Bowen Basin.
Burton is an open-cut coal mine which contains three undeveloped open pit deposits with total coal resources of 64Mt, coal reserves of 15Mt and substantial infrastructure, including the Burton Coal Handling and Preparation Plant (CHPP) and the Mallawa Train Loadout (TLO) with a total replacement value of more than A$300m. Lenton is an adjacent undeveloped open-cut project with total coal resources of 140Mt and coal reserves of 14Mt.
In July 2022, Bowen completed the acquisition of New Hope Corporation’s 90% interest in the Lenton Joint Venture, owner of the Burton Coal Mine and New Lenton Project. (Formosa Plastics Group holds the remaining 10%). The Burton mine had a proven track record for the reliable production of coking coal that was valued by the steel industry worldwide for its high quality, low ash and low sulphur, and the new operating pits will continue to mine the same Rangal coal measures.
The acquisition facilitated the creation of the wider Burton Complex targeting up to 4.5Mpta of long-term ROM production from the Broadmeadow East, Ellensfield South, Plumtree North and Isaac mining pits. The Ellensfield South Pit will soon be the cornerstone of Bowen Coking Coal’s near-term operations supplying the newly refurbishing Module 1 in the CHPP with high quality coking coal.
The marketing of Burton coal is handled by the company’s 50:50 Marketing Joint Venture with M Resources, a specialist metallurgical coal trading company.
Infrastructure
Bowen has secured the Lenton Joint Venture CHPP, the associated Mallawa TLO and the >350 bed Kerlong Accommodation Village. The CHPP is centrally located for the various pits associated with the Burton Complex, while the TLO facility is accessed by a Bowen owned and maintained haul road approximately 35km away. The TLO links into the Goonyella to Hay Point railway line which enables product to be railed approximately 200km to the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal.
Bowen has since completed refurbishment of both the TLO and the accommodation village. Module 1 of the CHPP has also been refurbished and commissioned, and is now operating reliably and in accordance with design parameters, processing coal from Broadmeadow East at or above nameplate capacity since April 2023.
Associated Water Licence data:
- February 2024
- July 2023
- September 2023
- October 2023