Anglo Coal Australia has entered into an alliance with the Thiess Sedgman Joint Venture TSJV to deliver the $346 million Dawson project. The Dawson Alliance is responsible for the upgrade of the mine’s coal handling and processing capability, which will see the coal handling and processing capacity at the Dawson Mine increase from 7mtpa to 12mtpa.

The Alliance would design, construction and commission a new Coal Handling and Processing Plant CHPP at the mine, which would include six fully automated stacker cum reclaimer machines on the raw and product coal stockpiles

The company noted raw coal system would accept coal from three separate mine sources delivered by an overland conveyor system, with the CHPP processing at 2000 tonnes per hour in two-stage mode and up to 3400 tonnes per hour in single stage mode. The plant contains dense medium cyclones, spirals and flotation circuits. The product coal would then be loaded via high capacity automated reclaimers to a new rail load out facility.

Located 140 km south west of Gladstone, the Dawson Coal Mine is operated by Anglo Coal Australia. The Dawson Alliance project is scheduled to be completed in May 2007