Stanmore to start highwall mining at Isaac Plains

Coal miner Stanmore Coal announced on Wednesday that it would extract 300 000 t of previously uneconomic coal from the disused S2 pit at the Isaac Plains mine, in Queensland’s Bowen basin. The company awarded a five-month contract to UGM Highwall Mining to start highwall mining operations at Isaac Plains, which Stanmore reopened in April this year after buying the formerly mothballed mine for $1 in November last year.