Hunter Valley Operations
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Hunter Valley Operations is a multi-pit open cut mine, using a dragline truck and shovel method. 747 employees (as at 31 December 2008) work in shifts to keep the mine operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Operations are centred in the Wittingham Coal Measures of the Hunter Coalfield, which is part of a Permian coal basin known as the Sydney basin.
In 2008 the mine produced more than eight million tonnes of thermal coal and almost two million tonnes of semi-soft coking coal. After being washed and prepared for sale, the coal is loaded onto trains for transportation 90km to the Port Warratah coal terminal in Newcastle where it is shipped to international customers.
HVO had marketable reserves of 330 million tonnes as at 31 December 2008.