Subscribe to RSS feedWet weather dampens Coal & Allied output
Coal & Allied, one of port of Newcastle's key exporters, says wet weather during the June quarter affected operations at each of its five mine sites.
The company's Hunter Valley operations produced a total of 2.73m tonnes of coal in the three months ended June 30, down from 2.91m tonnes a year ago, although little changed from the first quarter's production tally of 2.7m tonnes.
Coking coal production at the mine slumped to 346,000 tonnes from 1.08m tonnes a year earlier.
However thermal coal was much stronger, with output of 2.38m tonnes from 1.83m tonnes last year and 2.21m tonnes in the first quarter.
Bengalla Mine produced a total of 1.44m tonnes of thermal coal, down 169,000 tonnes on the same quarter last year. Production in the March quarter was 1.13m tonnes in the March quarter.
Mount Thorley produced 478,000 tonnes of thermal coal in the quarter, up from 428,000 a year ago, which was 35,000 tonnes less than the March quarter.
Meanwhile, coking coal output surged to 217,000 tonnes from 46,000 tonnes in the June 2008 quarter.
Total production at its Warkworth mine fell to 1.14m tonnes from 1.55m tonnes a year earlier.
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