Dendrobium Mine
Dendrobium Mine is an underground mine with operations located immediately adjacent to Mount Kembla, approximately 8 kilometres west of Wollongong in New South Wales, on the Illawarra escarpment.
Dendrobium Mine is an underground mine with operations located immediately adjacent to Mount Kembla, approximately 8 kilometres west of Wollongong in New South Wales, on the Illawarra escarpment.
Dendrobium Mine is an underground mining operation primarily producing metallurgical coal for steelmaking which commenced construction in January 2002 with longwall mining commencing in April 2005. The Dendrobium Mine is an essential supplier to Australian steelmakers, including BlueScope Port Kembla Steelworks and Liberty Primary Steel Whyalla Steelworks.
Covered conveyors take the raw coal from the Dendrobium mine site to the coal loading facility at Kemira Valley. From here it is taken seven kilometres by rail to the Dendrobium Coal Preparation Plant (DCPP) at Port Kembla.
Dendrobium Mine extracts coal from the Wongawilli Seam of the Southern Coalfield. Three mining areas make up the approved mine plan for Dendrobium and are named Areas 1, 2 and 3 (including 3A, 3B and 3C).
Dendrobium Mine has development consent until 2030.
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