A significant fall in sales of high-value coal due to equipment breakdowns at its largest customer on top of labour issues including a 3-day blockade and high absenteeism due to suspected COVID-19 cases restricted March qtr (Q1FY2021) sales of metallurgical and thermal coal by MC Mining’s 70%-owned Uitmost colliery to 53,512t, down from 72,656t in the prior period.
High ash middlings coal sales by the South African mine totalled 8,789t (Q4FY2020: 8,830t). Lower volumes raised production costs to $US72.74/t ($47.54/t).
Improved API4 coal prices helped lift revenue to $71.76M ($65.8M).
With the customer’s operations back to normal, MC expects its saleable coal surplus of 20,494t (15,092t) will be sold down during Q4.