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Appendix I<br />

Criteria<br />

Commentary<br />

• The manner in which Inferred Mineral Resources are utilised in mining<br />

studies and the sensitivity of the outcome to their inclusion.<br />

• The infrastructure requirements of the selected mining methods.<br />

• Pit Optimisation and LOM planning has been used as the basis of converting<br />

Coal Resources to Coal Reserves.<br />

• The selected mining method is that in use in the operating mine, i.e. open cut<br />

truck and excavator mining for both waste mining and coal mining, with out of<br />

pit and in pit dumping of waste.<br />

• Geotechnical parameters for the design of stable slopes have been provided by<br />

Australian Mining Consultants (“AMC”).<br />

• The mining factors used were:<br />

– Minimum coal mining thickness of 0.5 m.<br />

– Minimum parting mining thickness of 0.5 m.<br />

– Mineable coal section roof and floor loss of 100 mm.<br />

– Mineable coal section roof and floor dilution of 100 mm.<br />

– Global mining and geological loss 1%.<br />

– The quality of diluting material is relative density of 2.46 t/m 3 , and ash of<br />

92%.<br />

– Relative density data in the geological model is based on an average in-situ<br />

moisture of 3.2% (ar). ROM moisture is assumed to be 5% (ar), coking coal<br />

product moisture 8% (ar), middlings product moisture 9% (ar) and thermal<br />

product coal moisture 5% (ar).<br />

• The application of “Affected Zones” with higher global losses, as per the 2013<br />

LOM Study, were discontinued on the basis of actual mining coal recovery<br />

reconciliation results supplied by MMC for an 18 month period of sampling<br />

undertaken by MMC from January 2014 to June 2015.<br />

• Inferred Coal Resources are assigned revenue in the LOM study pit optimiser<br />

and included in the LOM production schedule as mineable coal, but are not<br />

converted to Coal Reserves.<br />

• The infrastructure requirements are in place at the operating mine comprising<br />

offices, workshops, service station and shared CHPP facilities with the BN mine.<br />

The infrastructure will be expanded as UHG production expands.<br />

Metallurgical factors<br />

or assumptions<br />

• The metallurgical process proposed and the appropriateness of that<br />

process to the style of mineralisation.<br />

• Whether the metallurgical process is well-tested technology or novel in<br />

nature.<br />

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Annual Report 2015

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