Bowens Road North

Commenced production March 2003

The Bowens Road North ("BRN") deposit is located 1½km north of the Stratford Main Deposit. It contains the Bowens Road seam and a number of minor seams of varying thickness and qualities. Generally the geology of the North Stratford area is characterised by strata dipping in excess of 45° to the west, interbedded with numerous thin coal seams. However, the Bowens Road Seam geology and character is different from the other coal seams. The seam is of substantial thickness and occurs as a relatively flat lying deposit in the BRN pit area.

The Bowens Road seam is a thick interval of domestic quality thermal coal. The seam, generally in excess of 10 metres thick, has previously been extracted from the Bowens Road West pit, an area of steeply dipping strata adjacent to the existing Stratford Coal Handling and Preparation Plant.

Coal mined from BRN is used either blended with raw coal from other GCL operations and washed to produce coking and thermal coals for the export market or sold as an unwashed thermal coal into the domestic market.