Mitsui Matsushima to Get 10% Interest in Doyles Creek Coal Mine

Mitsui Matsushima announced on Friday the firm decided to sign agreement with NuCoal Resources of Australia to purchase 10% interest in undeveloped coal mine, Doyles Creek for maximum 40 million Australian dollars. They develop the underground mine with annual 5 million tonnes of output capacity jointly to start production of high grade soft coking coal and thermal coal in 2015. Mitsui Matsushima’s equity coal increases by 500,000 tonnes to 2 million tonnes at the full capacity operation of Doyles Creek.

The mine in Hunter Valley, New South Wales is located in 100 kilometers away from the shipping port, New Castle. They develop the mine for A$ 739 million. The project is to produce mainly soft coking coal at the first stage.

Mitsui Matsushima gets the coal mine interest step by step up to 10%. The firm has option to increase the interest to maximum 20% depending on the final development plan. Depending on the option, the firm could secure 1 million tonnes of equity coal form the mine.