Australian Projects

Minarco-MineConsult has worked on projects in all coal producing regions of Australia and has carried out assignments on most of Australia's coal projects. In addition, we have worked with large iron ore and non-coal projects and our portfolio of customers in this sector is growing.

Australian Clients

Our Australian clients fall into three categories: mine owners and/or operators, investors, and financiers.

Mine Owners/Operators Investors Financiers
  • Anglo Mining
  • BHP Billiton
  • Centennial Mining
  • Coal and Allied
  • Cumnock Coal
  • Downer - Roche
  • Excel Mining
  • Gloucester Coal
  • Griffin Coal
  • Gympie Gold
  • Macarthur Coal
  • QCT Resources
  • Peabody
  • Rio Tinto
  • Sumitomo Mining
  • Ulan Coal Mines
  • White Mining
  • Xstrata
  • Yanzhou Coal Mining Company
  • Anglo Pacific
  • ATSI Commonwealth Development
  • China National Coal Group
  • China Steel
  • CITIC Australia
  • Delta Electricity
  • EDF Energy Merchants
  • Freight Corp. (Pacific National)
  • Guodian Corporation
  • Itochu Coal Australia
  • Kanematsu Corp.
  • Kores
  • Macquarie Generation
  • Marubeni
  • Mitsubishi Development
  • New South Wales Treasury
  • Posco
  • Queensland Rail
  • Sojitz
  • Tomen Corp
  • ABN Amro
  • AIDC
  • ANZ Bank
  • Bank National de Paris
  • Bank of Tokyo
  • Barclays Bank
  • Burvoir Partners
  • CITIC
  • Colonial State Bank
  • Commonwealth Bank
  • CS First Boston
  • Deutsche Bank
  • HSBC
  • Jardine Morgan
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • Macquarie Bank
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Resource Finance Corp
  • Rothschild Australia
  • Sumitomo Bank
  • WestLB Bank
  • Westpac Bank

Work completed

Work completed for our Australian clients has included substantial assignments in all 'Five Tiers of Service', including:

Service Tier Examples
Tier 1: Corporate
  • Strategic and acquisition and divestment advice for Australian and overseas companies.
Tier 2: Financing Support
  • Independent engineers and technical experts for banking syndicates on over 20 financing facilities, including the financing of Bengalla, Centennial Mining, and Tahmoor.
  • Independent engineers for five significant public capital raisings including Centennial Mining, Excel Mining, and Xstrata.
  • More than 30 due diligence studies for investors and lenders.
Tier 3: Operational
  • Establishment of mining operations at new projects.
  • Contract managers for mining contacts.
  • Management of the approvals process for a large greenfields project.
Tier 4: Reserves/Mine Management
  • Conceptual, prefeasibility, and bankable feasibility studies for more than 20 underground and open cut projects.
  • Reserve statements for Xstrata, Centennial Mining, Excel Mining, Macarthur Coal.
Tier 5: Geology and Resources
  • Development of exploration strategies for coal and polymetalic targets.

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