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An empty coal train heads west through Maitland bound for the coal mines. The Hunter Valley Coal Chain (HVCC) is the chain of coal delivery in New South Wales, Australia from (mainly open-cut) coal mines in the Hunter Region to the Port of Newcastle and domestic coal-fired power stations in the Hunter Valley.
Coal bunkering also took place at a "coal wharf" at Pyrmont. [20] The New South Wales Government Railways were large users of coal, after the first steam-powered railway in New South Wales opened in 1855. But once the railway from Sydney reached the western coal-fields in 1869, and later the other coal fields, they had no need for coal carried ...
a. Premier Coal mine at Collie in Western Australia's south west b. Bengalla mine in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales Whitehaven Coal: 23.1: Operates 6 mines in the Gunnedah Region of New South Wales. Several large scale projects are in the works, namely the Vickery Project in Gunnedah and Winchester South project in Central Queensland.
The port was the first commercial export port in Australia and is the world's busiest coal export port. Annual exports of coal from Newcastle exceeded A$15 billion in 2012–13. Newcastle berthed more than 2,200 ships a year in 2012–13. [5] The port's harbourmaster is the Port Authority of New South Wales.
Loading coal at 'the Dyke' c.1900 Coal Wharf - AGL Gasworks at Mortlake on the Parramatta River with a sixty-miler alongside. The coastal coal-carrying trade of New South Wales, involved the shipping of coal to Sydney for local consumption or for bunkering steamships. The coal was carried from ports of the northern and southern coal fields of ...
Transport Administration Act 1988 (NSW) FreightCorp , formally Freight Rail , was a railway operator owned by the Government of New South Wales . It was responsible for intrastate and some interstate railway cargo handling from its foundation in January 1989 until it was privatised in August 2002.
Open cut coal mine in the Hunter valley. Coal is mined in every state of Australia.The largest black coal resources occur in Queensland and New South Wales. [1] About 70% of coal mined in Australia is exported, mostly to eastern Asia, [2] and of the balance most is used in electricity generation.
Mount Arthur coal mine is an open cut coal mine located near Muswellbrook, Australia. Opened by BHP in 2002, it is the largest coal mine in New South Wales. Until 2020 it produced coal for domestic and overseas customers, when it shifted to only produce for overseas customers. [1] It has a mining capacity of 20 million tons per annum.