Australia's Coal Export Industry to Face Ordeals (3)

摘要

In Australia, with the background of the coal export market being in the long-term doldrums, as well as several high-cost coal mines being shut down, large-scale metallurgical coal and thermal coal projects have been put on the shelf one after the other. In fact, in order to cope with the slumping demand for metallurgical coal, BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) closed metallurgical coal mines in the Bowen Basin in the State of QLD in 2012 such as Norwich Park coal mine on May 11 and Gregory coal mine on October 10 respectively.