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PROJECT NOTES
COAL IS THE FUTURE
23 August 2010
US climate scientist, James Hansen, believes that coal “is the single greatest threat to life on our planet".
Such extremism cuts little ice in Asia.
Australia and Indonesia are riding on the back of an Asian coal boom.
In 2010, for the first time, South Africa’s coal exports to Asia will exceed those to Europe.
And even New Zealand is benefiting.
In Queensland in Australia, Hancock Prospecting is to spend over $10 billion on two thermal-coal projects, with production to exceed 50 million tonnes per year by 2015.
Also in Queensland, QCoal has four projects on-the-drawing-board, to produce 20 million tonnes per year, mainly of coking coal.
In East Kalimantan in Indonesia, UK company Churchill Mining is completing a feasibility study of a thermal-coal operation (to include a 160-kilometre conveyor from mine to port) that will produce over 30 million tonnes per year.
In East and Central Kalimantan, BHP Billiton announced plans in March 2010 to develop several major deposits, containing thermal and coking coal.
And by late 2011, production will commence at a small operation, Buller Coal, in the south island of New Zealand.
These are but a few of the coal projects planned in the region.