Metropolitan Coal Mine

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Metropolitan Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Metropolitan Coal Mine	Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia	-34.184912, 150.996569 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	–	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
3	2.047	2022	Underground	Longwall	–	500*	376*

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
10	2022	17	–	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Metropolitan Collieries Pty Ltd	Peabody Energy Corp [100.0%]	USA

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	1	2	1	1	1	2	2

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 Metropolitan Mine is an underground coal mine, operated by Peabody Energy, in Helensburgh, in the Southern Coalfields of New South Wales, Australia. . In 2009 Peabody Energy Australia's subsidiary, Helensburgh Coal, gained approval for the expansion of the mine as part of theMetropolitan Coal Project. Peabody Energy owns the mine and ramped up production 2 million tons (1.4 million tonnes) of hard and semi-hard coking coal. About 90 percent of Metropolitan's coal is exported through Port Kembla to major steel manufacturers and industrial consumers in Japan, India, Brazil, and Germany. The remaining coking coal is trucked to domestic steel producers.

• Owner: Peabody Energy Australia
• Parent company: Peabody Energy
• Location: Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia
• Coordinates:-34.184912, 150.996569
• Production: 1 million short tons
• Type of coal: Metallurgic
• Mineable Reserves: 16 million tonnes (Proven and Probable Reserve, 2020)
• Mine type: Underground
• Mining method: Longwall
• Number of employees:
• Recoverable Reserves: 63 million tons

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