Glencore has announced that it will start a recruitment process for more than 200 jobs at its Collinsville Coal Mine as it returns to production.
While Glencore has scaled back production at Collinsville this year, we have continued to assess a range of options for the mine in conjunction with monitoring coal market demand. We are now seeing increased demand from South-East Asia for the specific type of coal produced by Collinsville.
Tony Galvin, head of Glencore’s open cut coal business in Queensland, acknowledged that the last three years had seen some difficult decisions made at Collinsville in order to maintain the long-term viability of the mine.
“Our Collinsville mine has made material progress in increasing operational efficiencies and reducing costs in the current market and the decision to return to production is positive news for the local community and the wider region”, he said.
This year there has been a focus on rehabilitation work and management of mine water. We have also continued to support a number of community initiatives, including the funding of a revitalisation master plan that aims to increase tourism in Collinsville and surrounding areas.
Production at Collinsville is not expected to increase Glencore’s overall coal export tonnes from Australia given the recent closures of our underground mines at Newlands and West Wallsend.