NST currently holds a 33.3% interest in the coal project, while Korean steel company POSCO and Australian resources company Talbot Group hold 7.8% and 58.9% interests, respectively.

A feasibility study on the project will be completed by the end of next year and production is expected to start in 2014 or 2015.

With the participation of NSC in the Revuboe project, NSC and NST said they will jointly accelerate the development of the coal mine, aiming to strengthen the metallurgical coal procurement base.