Derby Export Facility

The Derby Export Facility has been proposed as a coal export port by Rey Resources. The company is developing plans to export 2.5 million tonnes of coal a year from its Duchess/ Paradise Coal Project, which would be the first coal mine in the Kimberley.

In 2009 Rey Resources took over the lease on the Derby Export Facility, which had previously been used to export lead and zinc sulphide concentrate exports from mines east of Fitzroy Crossing. Rey Resources states that, with the approval of Department of Environment Conservation, it will remediate the site.

Rey Resources is proposing to transport coal approximately 140 kilometres to the Derby Export Facility, deposited into a 70,000 tonne stockpile, sent via a conveyor to a barge loader and then to barges capable of carrying 8,500 tonnes each. The company then proposes that the barges be towed approximately 12 nautical miles to an existing vessel mooring point in King Sound. The company proposes that a 55,000 tonne vessel could be loaded in two days.

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External resources

 * Rey Resources, "Derby Export Facility Remediation", Rey Resources website, June 2011.