Clients

Kestrel produces high energy coal called Coking or Metallurgical Coal which is shipped to key markets in Asia and all over the world to be used in the steel making process.  Coking Coal is the only viable way at the moment to make steel which forms the framework of our life.

100% of Kestrel product is shipped from Gladstone Port in Queensland to customers all over the world.

Steel mills and coke makers across Asia, Europe, and South America covet Kestrel coal’s niche coking properties.

India is Kestrel’s largest market, followed closely by North-East Asia

Geology

Coking coal is mining from the German Creek Seam, which ranges from 2.4m to 3.2m, and makes up one of the several coal seams in the German Creek Formation. The German Creek Formation is a 120m thick layer of fine to medium-grained quartz-lithic sandstone with interbedded siltstone and claystone which contains the Corvus, Tieri, Aquilla and Pleiades seams, with German Creek seam being the lowest of the coal seams making up the formation.

The typical strata directly above the German Creek Seams consist of interbedded to interlaminated sandstone and siltstone sequences. Making a strong and stable roof stratum for mining of the German Creek seam.

 

The immediate floor of the German Creek Seam is typically composed of interbedded to interlaminated carbonaceous mudstone, siltstone and sandstone, with varying strengths but generally very competent floor for mining purposes.

Challenges of extraction

Longwall mining is the method used to extract the German Creek seam, whilst a dynamic and complicated process the method uses a system of hydraulic jacks (Shields) that hold the roof up whilst coal is extracted.

The type of coal:

  • Type – coking coal used in the steel production process. Kestrel’s product quality is technically suited to modern coke making technology popular in India.

LOM: (as per 2019 JORC report)

  • Kestrel South 400s’ and 500s’ panel – to 2033
  • Kestrel West (under review)
  • Kestrel West, including 600 & 700 series
    • Currently in life of mine definition & planning stages