In the province of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the tiny and remote island of Sebuku, there is the Sebuku coal mine which is an open cut truck and shovel coal-mining operation where you would see excavators, loaders and dump trucks which you would wish that they are used mining equipment for sale. It is owned and operated by the Straits Resources Singapore-listed subsidiary Straits Asia Resources.Before the mine developed, the population had absolutely no infrastructure serving its 4,000 or so residents. It now has local access roads, a new portsite on the southern end of the island as well as an airfield. The construction of site infrastructure started in July 1997 with waste stripping for the construction of dams, bunds and the run of mine (ROM) stockpile area and coal mining commencing in December 1997.
Annual production is currently 3mtpa and around 700 people are employed by the operation.
