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BHP to offload BMC Queensland coal assets

BHP has flagged plans to offload the Bowen Basin metallurgical coal mines it owns in joint venture with Japan's Mitsui and Co.

In its annual results presentation today the company said it would pursue options to divest its interests in BHP Mitsui Coal (BMC) as well as thermal coal businesses New South Wales Energy Coal and the Cerrejón mine in Colombia.

BHP holds an 80 per cent stake in BMC, which owns and operates South Walker Creek mine and Poitrel mine in Central Queensland.

Despite the company reporting a 4 per cent drop in annual profits, BHP chief executive. . .

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It’s a blast as Poitrel pioneers wireless technology

BHP Mitsui Coal's Poitrel mine has claimed the title of world’s largest blast using wireless technology, after successfully completing the third blast in a trial series to test Orica WebGen technology.

The latest blast on Sunday, October 13, saw 1.3 million cubic metres of overburden shifted in a strata blast fired with 1920 WebGen 100 units across 534 holes.

Poitrel mine production manager Jayson Smeeton said the technology offered significant safety and efficiency improvements.

It features wireless in-hole primers that are initiated by a firing command that communicates through rock, water and air.

“Wireless blasting means. . .

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