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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Ian Kirkwood

Malabar Resources seeks 'minor' changes to Maxwell underground near Muswellbrook

READY TO ROLL AGAIN: The former Drayton open-cut coal stockpile area now owned by Malabar Resources and approved as part of the surface facilities for its proposed Maxwell underground mine, which it says will start producing coal in early 2023. Picture: Malabar Resources

MALABAR coal is seeking state government approval to change some of its longwall panels and conduct other "minor works" at its proposed Maxwell underground mine on the former Drayton South leases at Muswellbrook.

Maxwell was approved by a two-person Independent Planning Panel in December 2020 under conditions including a maximum of eight million tonnes of run-of-mine coal a year.

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