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As of 2022 there were 86 coal mines in Queensland. [1] Mine Name Company Mine Type Basin ... Ensham coal mine: Sungela: Open-cut: Bowen-3.2: Export & Domestic: Thermal
The Olive Downs Complex is an open-cut mine for metallurgical coal in the Bowen Basin of Queensland, Australia. It is located 40 kilometres south-east of Moranbah, about 140 km south-west of Mackay. The mine is accessed via the Sheldon Bridge over the Isaac River. [1]
The mine was initially planned to produce 60 million tonnes of coal per year; however, funding difficulties resulted in downsizing the planned mine to produce 10 million tonnes per year. Construction of the mine started in June 2019, and on 29 December 2021 the first coal shipment from the Carmichael Mine was ready for export.
In 2018, Rio Tinto completed its exit from coal mining with the sale of the Kestrel coal mine. [51] BHP planned to sell the Mount Arthur mine in 2022, but failed to attract a viable offer and decided to continue operations there until financial year 2030. [52] In August 2022, BHP completed its sale of the BHP Mitsui Coal to Stanmore Resources. [53]
The act 23 & 24 Vict. c. 151, sometimes called the Mines Regulation Act 1860, [3] the Mines Act 1860, [4] the Inspection of Mines Act 1860, [5] the Regulation and Inspection of Mines Act 1860, [6] the Coal Mines Act 1860, [7] the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1860, [8] the Inspection and Regulation of Coal Mines Act 1860, [9] or the Inspection of Coal Mines Act, [10] is an Act of the Parliament of ...
Coal mines - current or former - as well as facilities related to coal mining Pages in category "Coal mines in Queensland" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
Situated around 200 kilometers west of Brisbane in Queensland's Surat Basin, the Commodore Mine is adjacent to the 850 mega-watt coal-fired Millmerran Power Station, to which the mine is the only source of coal fuel supply, having made its first delivery there in February 2003. [1] [4] The Commodore mine employs about 50 staff onsite in total.
In the 2006-07 financial year mining contributed 9% of Queensland's gross state product (GSP). [18] Queensland has significant coal, coal seam gas and bauxite deposits and some oil shale and natural gas reserves. Coal production in the 2008-09 financial year totalled 159 million tonnes leading to exports to 38 countries. [19]