Mount Arthur could be next as Glencore buys out its joint venture partners in big Colombian mine

Ian Kirkwood
Updated June 30 2021 - 9:46am, first published 6:00am
MOUNT ARTHUR'S SIBLING MINE: Cerrejon in Colombia was once on a list of the world's 10 biggest coalmines, in terms of recoverable reserves. Mount Arthur is still on that list, in eighth position. Picture: BHP
MOUNT ARTHUR'S SIBLING MINE: Cerrejon in Colombia was once on a list of the world's 10 biggest coalmines, in terms of recoverable reserves. Mount Arthur is still on that list, in eighth position. Picture: BHP

BHP and South African/UK multinational Anglo American have each sold their one-third shares in the giant Cerrejon thermal coal mine in Colombia to their joint-venture partner Glencore, leaving Muswellbrook's Mount Arthur as BHP's only thermal coal asset.

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Ian Kirkwood

Ian Kirkwood

Journalist

Reporting journalist at the Newcastle Herald since 1987. Editorial writer, general reporter, industrial relations, industry and coal.

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