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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.
As of 2022 there were 86 coal mines in Queensland. [1] Mine Name Company Mine Type Basin ... 2021: 10: Export: Thermal Collinsville: Glencore [14] Open-cut: Bowen Basin:
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.
Meandu Mine is a coal mine west of Yarraman in Neumgna, Queensland, Australia. The open-cut mine supplies coal to Tarong Power Station and Tarong North Power Station. It is owned by Stanwell Corporation and operated by Downer Mining. Work first started on the mine in 1978. [1] The mine has five active working pits.
The Blair Athol Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland, Australia. It is located over the former site of the township of Blair Athol. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 195 million tonnes of thermal coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of ...
Likewise, it has no functioning coal-fired power stations. South Australia previously had a number of coal power stations. The last to be closed were the Northern and Playford B power stations. [31] Tasmania has no functioning coal-fired power stations, instead using primarily hydroelectricity, with natural gas used as a backup.
The town is located on the Capricorn Highway in Central Queensland, 804 kilometres (500 mi) north west of the state capital, Brisbane. Bluff's location between some of Queensland's largest coal mines and the port of Gladstone has led to it becoming a major interchange station for large coal trains, some up to two kilometres long. [4]
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.