Mangoola Coal Mine

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Mangoola Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Wybong, New South Wales, Australia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Mangoola Coal Mine	Wybong, New South Wales, Australia	-32.294922, 150.706712 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1999	–

Table 3: Operation details

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
13	7.69	2022	Surface	Open Pit	–	50	390

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
65	2023	1570	Hunter	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Mangoola Coal Operations Pty Ltd	Glencore PLC [100.0%]	Switzerland

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	11	13	12	9	8	7	10

Expansion/Extension

Table 6: Project status

* Added capacity of a coal mine refers to the enhancement in the mine's production capabilities beyond its initial production capacity.

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Project Phase	Added Capacity (Mtpa)*	Start Year
Proposed	Permitted	Extension	–	5	–

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker April 2024 release and the September supplement.

Background

The Mangoola Coal mine is surface mine, operated by Mangoola Coal Operations Pty. Limited, a subsidiary of Glencore near Wybong in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia.

In 2021, the mine received approval for a life of mine extension, to continue operations to 2030. On its website Xstrata Coal states that " Approval to construct and operate the Mangoola open cut coal mine was granted by the NSW Minister of Planning on 7 June 2007. In October 2007, Xstrata Coal purchased the mine. Xstrata Mangoola Pty Limited manages the mine on behalf of Xstrata Coal. Xstrata Mangoola is approved to extract and process up to 10.5 million tonnes per annum of coal from an undeveloped coal reserve at Mangoola for a period of 21 years from the granting of the mining lease on 20 November 2008."

• Sponsor: Mangoola Coal Operations Pty. Limited
• Parent Company: Glencore
• Location: Near Wybong, New South Wales (NSW), approximately 20 kilometres (km) west of Muswellbrook, and approximately 10 km north of Denman in the Muswellbrook Local Government Area (LGA)
• GPS Coordinates: -32.294922, 150.706712 (exact)
• Status: Operating
• Production Capacity: 6.1 (2021)
• Total Resource: 180 million tonnes
• Mineable Reserves: 81 million tonnes
• Coal type: Thermal coal
• Mine Size:
• Mine Depth: 50m
• Mine Type: Open-cut
• Workforce Size:340
• Start Year: 1999
• Source of Financing:

Opposition

In August 2019, the environmental group Lock the Gate announced its opposition to the mine on the grounds that its expansion would accelerate further damage to the Wybong village and intensify the region's economic dependence on the industry. Georgina Woods, a Lock the Gate Alliance spokesperson, expresses her disapproval: “The noise and dust from the mine has depopulated the district and those people that remain suffer physically and emotionally as a result.”

In April 2021, the New South Wales Government granted Glencore permits to extend the life of the mine until 2029 through a new pit at the operation.

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