South32 has reported a 9.0% rise in coking coal production for the first quarter after the miner ramped up output at its Illawarra project in NSW.
Production of the steel-making ingredient, known as metallurgical or coking coal, was about 1.7 million tonnes in the September quarter, compared with 1.5 million tonnes a year earlier.
The Illawarra operations, which account for nearly all of the company's coal output, rose 9% in the quarter.
The miner maintained its fiscal 2020 production forecast across all of its operations, with Illawarra expected to produce 7 million tonnes of coal for the year.
(Writing by Wenxin Wu Editing by Harry Huo)
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