Carborough Downs project

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The Carborough Downs project is an underground coal mine in the Bowen Basin in Queensland which is currently being developed by Vale Australia, a subsidiary of Vale. The company states the project is at "is at the production ramp-up stage. It is due to reach nominal capacity of 4.8 Mtpa in 2011".

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