BHP Billiton cuts costs at Mount Arthur with contract workforce

By Ian Kirkwood
Updated July 27 2016 - 11:52am, first published July 26 2016 - 11:30pm
BIG BUSINESS: Surface facilities including the coal handling and preparation plant at the giant Mount Arthur open-cut coalmine, south of Muswellbrook. Picture: BHP Billiton
BIG BUSINESS: Surface facilities including the coal handling and preparation plant at the giant Mount Arthur open-cut coalmine, south of Muswellbrook. Picture: BHP Billiton

MOUNT Arthur coal mine was one of the Hunter Valley’s biggest when it opened in 2001 with approval to extract 15 million tonnes of coal for the next 21 years.

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