Analysis of Opportunity to Incorporate Raw Coal into Clean Coal Products at Greenhills Operations

This project looks at an opportunity to increase the metallurgical coal production at GreenhillsOperation.Analysis of the seaborne metallurgical coal indicates that it has experienced a dramatic shift in supply and demand balance over the past five years due to increased urbanization in developing China. Increased demand has put continued upward pressure on metallurgical coal prices.Teck has stated that its strategy in the metallurgical coal industry is to grow its productive capacity by leveraging its existing resource base. This project looks at the potential to do that through bypassing raw coal with sufficiently low ash content, thus increasing capacity without changes to the mine plan or processing plant.An economic analysis of the project indicates extremely favourable results. Potential concerns from a quality perspective are explored, and recommendations are made to test the product to determine the feasibility from a quality perspective.