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Who wouldn't be interested in securing these 7000 hectares of the Upper Hunter?

That is the question BHP is shortly to find out as it transitions towards the closure of the company's last remaining coal asset, Mount Arthur Coal near Muswellbrook.

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Fresh on the heels of its four-year mining extension approval for the open-cut thermal coal mine, the company is at the same time planning its

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