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Daunia Coal Mine

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Producing Premium-Quality Metallurgical Coal

In 2013, the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA)聽聽their new open-cut metallurgical coal mine.聽 Located within Central Queensland’s coal-rich Bowen Basin, the Daunia mine had initial annual capacity of 4.5 million metric tons of export metallurgical coal.聽

8868体育app下载 provided engineering, procurement, construction, and management services to deliver BMA鈥檚 project, which also included a coal-handling and processing unit, and infrastructure to support operations and shipment. We completed the project under budget and four months ahead of schedule.

Central Queensland is also home to other projects 8868体育app下载 has delivered for the BMA (Caval Ridge听补苍诲听Hay Point Expansion Stage 3). Coal from Caval Ridge is transported by rail from Daunia to Hay Point, which is roughly 93 miles (about 150 kilometers) away.

Daunia Coal Mine Brisbane Hub

Innovative Execution Center Optimizes Performance

Daunia was one of several large endeavors聽8868体育app下载 managed through the innovative Brisbane Hub. This execution center was formed to plan and optimize large-scale projects owned by BHP Billiton and its partners. These included four nearby metallurgical coal projects in the Bowen Basin:聽Caval Ridge,听Hay Point Expansion Stage 3,聽Broadmeadow and South Walker Creek.聽

The Hub model enabled 8868体育app下载 and its customer to work together directly in a planned long-term arrangement for the most effective delivery in terms of budget, schedule, safety and quality improvements, and risk reduction during construction.

Supporting the Worldwide Steel Industry 

By value, coal is Queensland’s most important export commodity, and Queensland is the world’s largest exporter of seaborne coal. Steelmakers use some 60 percent of the state’s coal exports.聽The Hay Point Terminal鈥攚hich聽鈥攅nables mines such as Daunia to meet the growing need for hard coking coal used to manufacture steel. Massive ships fill their hulls with coal bound for destinations around the world, including Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

The process begins at Daunia and its sister mines. Crews use excavators and trucks to collect from the pit. They transport coal聽to the surface using rear dump trucks, which follow the haul road and deliver their cargo to a processing plant.

Trains transport the commodity聽to the coal-handling complex, where personnel unload, stack, reclaim, and blend as necessary before conveyors transfer it onto each ship.

Daunia Coal Mine Conveyer Framework

Key Facts

750
Jobs Created

During construction, the mine development created 450 construction and 300 operation jobs.

The project included:

Daunia Coal Mine Earthworks Worker
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Daunia Coal Mine Workers