Winchester South coal mine

Winchester South is a large-scale open cut coal project located in the Bowen Basin in Queensland, and is covered by mining development lease MDL183. On the 22nd March, Whitehaven announced it had agreed to purchase Rio Tinto's 75% interest in the Winchester South coking coal project in Queensland's Bowen Basin for US$200 million in cash. Wood Mackenzie’s asset reports are built from the bottom up, incorporating a number of granular data metrics to ultimately produce our industry standard cash operating costs. This report contains a detailed asset note giving you a holistic view of the asset, including an operational overview through to a timeline of events from inception to now. This qualitative analysis is supplemented by the associated Excel download which enables interrogation of a whole series of cost and production metrics over the life of the asset.