Macmines AustAsia

Macmines AustAsia is a subsidiary of Meijin Energy, the largest private coke producer in China. Meijin Energy is owned by the billionaire Yao Junliang.

Macmines AustAsia is investigating the possibility of establish the China Stone project, a massive thermal coalmine on coal leases it acquired in 2007, 230km southwest of Charters Towers in Queensland. In early June the company released its first resource estimates revealing a deposit containing 3.7 billion tonnes of thermal coal. It was reported that a company official said Meijin was investigating a possible 30 - 60 million tonnes a year of coal for export from 2014 or 2015.

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