Ravensworth Coal Mine

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Ravensworth Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Ravensworth Coal Mine	Singleton, New South Wales, Australia	-32.4426478, 151.0063967 (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	–	1972	–

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
16	12.8	2022	Surface	Open Pit	–	60*	130

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
152	2023	670	Hunter	Bituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Ravensworth Operations Pty Limited	Glencore PLC [100.0%]	Switzerland, Japan

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	–	0	0	0	12	12	13

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 Ravensworth Open Cut coal mine is an open cut mine 25km northwest of Singleton in Hunter Valley of NSW, Australia. The mine is a part of the Ravensworth Coal Complex, which also includes Ravensworth Underground coal mine.

Ravensworth Open Cut is a joint venture between Itochu 10% and Glencore 90%. There are several different pits included in the Ravensworth Open Cut mine, including Narama, Ravensworth West and Ravensworth North.

On its website, Xstrata Coal, a previous owner of the mine, stated that "Coal mining in the Ravensworth area first began in 1972 at the Ravensworth No.2 Open Cut mine to supply coal under contract to Pacific Power (previously known as the Electricity Commission of NSW). Following completion of this initial contract in 1987, a second contract was awarded to mine the Ravensworth South area, which was mined at the rate of 3.9 million tonnes per annum. The resource was exhausted in December 2000, rehabilitated the following year and the land handed back to owners Pacific Power. A further coal contract was secured with Pacific Power in 1990 to provide approximately two million tonnes of thermal coal per annum for 20 years from the Narama area. This lease lies immediately to the south of Ravensworth South and utilises infrastructure at the former Ravensworth South site. This contract for supply was transferred to Macquarie Generation following the NSW Government’s deregulation of electricity generators in 1996."

In 2011, the open cut operations transitioned from domestic operation to a large export producing site. This meant that the Narama and Ravensworth West pits were phased out, and the Ravensworth North pit was phased in. Approval of mining in the Ravensworth North area came to be in 2012. This approval allowed Ravensworth to open cut mine over 16Mtpa of ROM coal and expand the CHPP surface infrastructure and facilities.

• Sponsor: Ravensworth Operations Pty Limited
• Parent Company: Itochu 10% and Glencore 90%
• Location: located in the NSW Hunter Valley, between the towns of Muswellbrook and Singleton.
• GPS Coordinates: -32.4426478, 151.0063967 (exact)
• Status: Operating
• Production: 8.7 million tonnes (in 2021)
• Total Resource: 744 Mt
• Mineable Reserves: 140 Mt
• Coal type: Thermal, Coking
• Mine Size: open cut
• Mine Type:
• Start Year: 1972
• Source of Financing:

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