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nder a plan approved by
the US Mine Safety and
Health Administration (MSHA),
Foresight Energy has resumed longwall
mining operations at its Deer Run
mine in Pennsylvania. The operations
will allow the company to recover
the longwall and relocate it to a new
longwall district.
The company is working with
regulatory agencies to complete this
longwall move and to eventually resume
normal longwall mining operations at
the mine.
Once this longwall move is finished,
the current longwall district will be
sealed and the company will use
continuous mining machines to resume
development of the next longwall district
in a new area of the mine.
Coal News
US
Operations resume
at Deer Run mine
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tanmore Coal has purchased the
Isaac Plains coal mine from its
owners Vale and Sumitomo Corp. for
AUS$1. The mine had been placed into
care and maintenance but Stanmore
now aims to recommence mining at the
site by 1H16 with an initial production
rate of 1.1 million tpa. The acquisition
includes all assets relating to the mine,
including a dragline, coal handling
and processing plant, rail look, loading
facility and mine infrastructure area.
Isaac Plains contains resources of
30.1 million t with opencast reserves of
5 million t. Stanmore also owns the
Wotonga deposit, located immediately to
the east of the Issac Plains site, and the
company expects “significant capital and
operational synergies”.
AUSTRALIA
Stanmore
buys Isaac Plains mine
