Conuma Coal Resources Ltd expects to generate around 4 million st of metallurgical/PCI coal in 2017 at 3 surface area mines in the Tumbler Ridge area of northeastern British Columbia, including the idled Willow Creek mine presently set up for a July reboot, the company's head of state, Mark Bartkoski, stated Monday.
Since last loss, the company, a subsidiary of West Virginia-based ERP Compliant Gas, has actually rebooted the Brule as well as Wolverine mines got in 2015 from Walter Canada. Willow Creek is the third mine in that acquisition.
" Efficiency is doing very well," Bartkoski said in an interview. "We have extremely high assumptions [for] our individuals."
biocide products is targeted to create concerning 2.4 million st as well as Wolverine regarding 1.3 million st in 2017, according to Bartkoski. Willow Creek is forecasted to be around a 700,000 st/year mine, although Bartkoski expects the mine to turn out only regarding 300,000 st in 2017.
" If the marketplace continues to be pretty strong, then we wish to bring Willow Creek right into operation in July," he stated.
Bartkoski claimed Conuma is attempting to develop an operation in the western Canadian province that can thrive in both market ups and also downs.
" What we're finishing with the marketplace up a bit is we're taking the opportunity to pay down some of the financial debt, which we didn't have very much," he claimed. "We're also dealing with numerous effectiveness jobs and also equipment upgrades."
Among them involves the installation of a crusher system at Brule. "We're squashing every one of the coal before we transport it, and that will certainly permit us to obtain even more haul on the vehicles and aid with the sampling system," he claimed.
Conuma's coal is being delivered to Eastern markets via the Ridley Terminal in Royal Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
By very early May, Conuma anticipates to have regarding 460 staff members at Brule and also Wolverine. Ultimately, Willow Creek will certainly have about 220 employees, boosting Conuma's complete miner pay-roll to virtually 700.
Conuma Coal Resources Ltd expects to generate around 4 million st of metallurgical/PCI coal in 2017 at 3 surface area mines in the Tumbler Ridge area of northeastern British Columbia, including the idled Willow Creek mine presently set up for a July reboot, the company's head of state, Mark Bartkoski, stated Monday.
