Walter-Continental to lift Glennies Creek capacity

摘要

OPERATOR of the Glennies Creek colliery in the Hunter Valley, Namoi Hunter, is set to upgrade the conveyor system at the mine as part of a move to high-capacity longwall mining.The company has contracted the Walter-Continental Conveyor Joint Venture (WCCJV) - a union of Australia's Walter Construction Group and US-based Continental Conveyor and Equipment -to design, manufacture, install and commission a 3000-tonnes-per-hour drift and stacker conveyor system, and associated infrastructure. The system will replace the existing configuration of four separate conveyors, provide greater stockpiling capacity, and allow Namoi Hunter to transport higher volumes of coal out of the mine.