Glencore to restart operations at Australian Integra underground mine

07 November 2016

Anglo-Swiss multinational Glencore will restart mining early next year at the Integra underground coal operation in Australia’s New South Wales, which produces high fluidity semi-hard coking coal, the company said Tuesday.

The firm is targeting a 2017 semi-hard coal production of 1.3 million mt from the mine that had been on care and maintenance since July 2014.

Operations could be maintained till 2018, the company said.

Australian producers like Glencore are resuming or raising output at met coal operations to take advantage of surging prices this year.

Source – Platts