GVK Hancock secures environmental clearance for its alpha coal project in Australia

09 Oct 2014 Evaluate

After over 6 years of comprehensive environmental assessments and detailed planning, GVK Hancock has been granted an Environmental Authority (Clearance) for its Alpha Coal Project in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland. The grant of this Environmental Approval represents one of the most extensive and rigorous processes that went into the environmental assessment of GVK’s proposed Alpha mine, which included around 300 collaborative scientific studies, involving over 500 specialist consultants.

The scientific rigour that has gone into the environmental assessment of this Alpha Coal Project has received approval from the State and Federal governments and the company further plans to meet every environmental condition that has been set by regulatory authorities.

The volume and magnitude of GVK's Alpha coal project’s large, shallow and very flat coal seams would enable large scale mining techniques, thus ensuring that the proposed mine remains cost competitive even in current tough market conditions. The combination of large scale mining techniques, favourable geology and other techniques deliver a free-on-board price that would ensure GVK Hancock's Alpha mine remains relatively immune to cyclical coal prices.
 
With the Environmental Authority for Alpha Coal Project in place, GVK’s key focus is to continue advancing the project to a point where construction can commence. Once the infrastructure joint venture with Aurizon is finalised and the regulatory bodies have addressed litigious challenges to approvals, GVK Hancock will execute coal off-take agreements before finalising all financing arrangements.

The proposed Alpha mine has a JORC compliant resource of 1.8 billion tonnes, with 1.2 billion tonnes of reserves and will be a full open cut mine producing around 32 million tonnes per annum for 30 years.

GVK Hancock is a joint venture combining the strong energy and infrastructure portfolio of one of India’s leading business groups in GVK, with one of Australia’s leading resource companies Hancock Prospecting, which has an excellent history of resource and economic development in regional Australia.

 

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