Highlights

Dragline operating at night at Coppabella Mine

Share Price
$5.80 AUD
As at: 7:15 PM 10/10/2008
(20 Min Delay)
ASX code: MCC
History

Macarthur Coal Time-line

 

1996 December Ken Talbot and AMCI farm into tenement EPC531
1997 April 10m thick coal seam now called Macarthur Seam discovered 100m deep
1997 September          Feasibility study completed for Coppabella Mine
1997 October Mining Lease Application (MLA) and EMOS lodged with Department of Mines and Energy
1997 October Coppabella Joint Venture (JV) formed
1998 June Coppabella Mining Lease granted
1998 July Coppabella JV expanded
1998

1st October         

First coal mined at Coppabella
1998 6th November     First shipment of 18,293 tonnes of coal to Nippon Steel
1999 Financial year Total production 500,000 tonnes
2001 22nd February Macarthur Coal Limited incorporated
2001 1st July IPO
2002 December Moorvale Mining Lease granted
2003 March First coal mined from Moorvale
2003 11th December Coppabella and Moorvale JVs unified
2006 Financial Year Total production 7,000,000 tonnes
2006 1st December Acquisition of Peter Champion Mining assets
2007 January Nicole Hollows appointed CEO