The owners of the Foxleigh coal mine, 12km south-east of Middlemount, are advancing a proposal that would help keep it ticking along steadily until about 2052. Public comment is now open on the Roper Creek extension project's referral for federal environmental approval. The Foxleigh open-cut operation, established in 1999, produces about 3.5Mtpa of low volatile pulverised coal injection (LV PCI) metallurgical coal. The Roper Creek extension proj…
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