Surat area has the Wondoan coal measures. A multi thin seam deposit with clay inter-burden. The coal is actually OK, but the repeated clay inter-burden makes the use of large scale mining equipment impracticable. Very difficult to get Wondoan measure mining below $100t FOB. Whereas the Galilee basin has good sized seems amenable to large mining equipment for opencut, or longwalls in the case of underground.
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