The sale of the Tahmoor coking coal colliery south of Sydney is progressing toward a deal that would reopen the underground mine, Australian Mining reported Thursday, with the transaction moving reopening hopes closer to reality. Separately, mining services contractor Mastermyne has been contracted for mining services at Tahmoor, International Mining reported on Friday, a concrete sign that a buyer is staffing up for a restart.
Tahmoor is a metallurgical coal operation in the Southern Coalfields of New South Wales that has sat largely idle after the ownership and operating turmoil of recent years. A restart would add hard coking coal supply into a market that has lived with tight seaborne availability and price spikes on any Australian disruption. For Mastermyne, a contractor whose business is built on underground coal mining services, the Tahmoor engagement fits its core work.
Details of the sale, including the buyer, the price and the timing of first coal, have not been confirmed in fetchable reporting at this stage. The story is worth watching through the contract confirmations rather than the headlines: mining services mobilization tends to be a leading indicator that a restart plan is real. The edition treats this as a developing item until terms are disclosed.