Resources veteran Ayten Saridas says there’s no shortage of lenders for coal mines like the one her company is developing at Dartbrook in NSW and the state’s plan to force miners to reserve coal for domestic consumption won’t scare them away.

Ms Saridas became interim chief executive of Australian Pacific Coal (AQC) this month, putting her in charge of a plan to bring the Dartbrook mine back into production later this year for the first time in more than a decade.