Bathurst expects first coal from Denniston in March

Bathurst expects first coal from Denniston in March
Nov. 26 (BusinessDesk) – Coal miner Bathurst Resources expects to win first coal from its open-cast Escarpment mine on the Denniston Plateau in late March or early April next year, says managing director Hamish Bohannan. Bathurst gained Environment Court backing for the heavily contested scheme late last month, more than two years after first being granted resource consents to take high-grade coking coal, prized globally for use in steel-making, in August 2011. The consents were appealed by environmental groups, led by the Royal Forest & Bird...