Company Profile
PT. Multi
Harapan Utama is an Indonesian joint venture company incorporated in
1986.
In 1986 the
company was granted a coal concession area in East Kalimantan,
Indonesia. The coal cooperation agreement with the Indonesian Government
covers a period of 30 years until the year 2018
The Concession Area
The concession
area is located 60 km to the south west of the provincial capital of
Samarinda with the major Mahakam river passing through the area.
The original
area granted in 1986 covered 1900 square kilometres and as per the terms
of the agreement has been reduced to 25% of original holding, bening
some 475 square kilometres.
Exploration
throughout the concession has proven several coal resources of mineable
potential including Busang, Sentuk, and Gitan areas.
To date over
120 million tonnes of coal reserve have been identified.
Busang Mine
The first
mining area selected was in the north of the concession at the Busang
Syncline.
Exploration,
mine planning and design of processing, stockpiling, and barge loading
facilities was undertaken in 1987.
The Busang mine
was brought into production in April 1988 and operates at a production
capacity of 2,000,000 MT/ annum.
Multi brand
coal produced from the mine is agood steaming of medium sulphur, medium
to high moisture, low ash, and a medium heating value.
Mining Operations
The Busang mine
is a multi thin seam mining operation which requires stringent design,
planning, and management control in order to maximize recovery from all
mineable seams and achieve an optimum product coal blend.
Detailed
drilling and strict sampling procedures are in place in order to manage
the sequence of coal extraction and produce a consistent quality
product.
Several coal
faces are in operation at any one time and mining activity is undertaken
by conventional methods utilizing trucks, front-end loaders,
excavators, and bulldozers for both overburden removal and coal mining.
Coal seams are
carefully cleaned to prevent dilution and loaded by excavators into 30
tonne trucks for transportation to the Beloro facility which is situated
30 km north of the mining area.
The operations
is carried out by a mining contractor under strict supervision of PT.
Multi Harapan Utama.
Gitan and sentuk Coal Deposits
General
exploration activity has been completed in the Gitan (Belumpur river)
and Sentuk coal deposits.
Significant
reserves of good quality economically recoverable coal have been
identified and the decision made to develop a new 2,000,000 MT/ annum
operation.
The project
will require construction of a new stockpile and port facility at
Jembayan on the Mahakam river together with a 40 km coal haul road to
link the mine to the port.
Land
acquisition has been completed at the stock pile/ port location and is
currently in progress for the access road.
A variety of
coal qualities will be available from the new mines and blended products
will be produced to meet a wider range of customer requirements, from
the current Multi brand market.
General exploration
activity has been completed in the Gitan (Belumpur river) and Sentuk
coal deposits.
Significant
reserves of good quality economically recoverable coal have been
identified and the decision made to develop a new 2,000,000 MT/ annum
operation.
The project
will require construction of a new stockpile and port facility at
Jembayan on the Mahakam river together with a 40 km coal haul road to
link the mine to the port.
Land
acquisition has been completed at the stock pile/ port location and is
currently in progress for the access road.
A variety of
coal qualities will be available from the new mines and blended products
will be produced to meet a wider range of customer requirements, from
the current Multi brand market.
Facilities
The Beloro
facilities include the site administration office, processing plant,
stockpiling and barge loading terminal situated on the south bank of the
Mahakam river.
Raw coal
stockpile for crushing and washing through the plant at a rate of 400
MT/ hour.
Total stockpile
capacity is 135,000 MT
At Beloro coal
is reclaimed from the product stockpile by dozer and underground hopper
to a fixed barge loader for delivery at 1,000MT/ hour into ocean going
barges up to 8,000 DWT.
From the Beloro
jetty coal is transported downstream on the Mahakam river to the open
sea.
For domestic
customers coal is barged directly and for export it can either be
transhipped at the Mahakam river delta (Muara Jawa 160 km/ Muara Berau
250 km) or loaded through Indonesia Bult Terminal (IBT), Pulau Laut.
At either
location the maximum size vessel which can be loaded is Panamax
Coal Quality and Marketing
Multi Brand
Coal has been succesfully marketed in Taiwan, Japan, Hongkong,
Philippines, Indonesia,and other Asian Countries.
PT. Multi
Harapan Utama has established a good reputation as a reliable supplier
of a consistent quality product.
The majority of
coal sales are under long term contract with the coal being manly used
for Power Generation.
Other markets
include cement plants, general industry and steel mills (PCI).
