Metallurgical coal project in the Elk Valley region.
Production
Planned coking coal production
Processing
Coal crushing, washing, blending
Equipment
Track-mounted rotary blasthole drills (251 mm hole size) (5 drills required at peak); hydraulic front shovel (29 m³ bucket); large backhoe (22 m³ bucket); front-end loader (20 m³ bucket); large excavator (12 m³ bucket); haul trucks (227 t for waste; 186 t for coal; plus 132 t truck for haul breaker rejects/coarse coal rejects); support equipment: track dozer (6.4 m blade) (1); track dozers (4.9 m blade) (8); wheel dozer (4.6 m blade) (1); motor grader (7.3 m) (1); motor graders (4.9 m) (2); water trucks (2).
Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) is a large-scale open cut operation that produces some of the highest quality thermal and semi-soft metallurgical coal in the world.