As of 2022 there were 86 coal mines in Queensland. [1]
| Mine Name | Company | Mine Type | Basin | Operations began | Production (Mt/a) | Use | Coal type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeebropilly Mine | New Hope Group [2] | Open-cut | Clarence-Moreton | 1982 | 0.5 | Export | Thermal |
| Commodore | Intergen [3] | Open-cut | Clarence-Moreton | 2003 | 3.6 | Domestic | Thermal |
| New Acland | New Hope Group [4] | Open-cut | Clarence-Moreton | 2002 | 4.2 | Domestic & Export | Thermal |
| Meandu | Stanwell Corporation [5] | Open-cut | Tarong | 1983 | 7 | Domestic | Thermal |
| Kogan Creek | CS Energy [6] | Open-cut | Surat | 2007 | 2.8 | Domestic | Thermal |
| Dawson | AngloAmerican Coal [7] | Open-cut | Bowen | 1961 | 9 | Export | Coking & Thermal |
| Olive Downs | Pembroke Resources [8] | Open-cut | Bowen | 2023 | 15 | Export | Coking |
| Blackwater | BHP Mitsubishi Alliance [9] | Open-cut | Bowen | 1967 | 13 | Export | Coking & Thermal |
| Blair Athol | TerraCom [10] | Open-cut | Bowen | 1984 | 12.9 | Export | Thermal |
| Burton | Peabody Energy [11] | Open-cut | Bowen | 1995 | 4.3 | Export | Coking |
| Cameby Downs | Yancoal [12] | Open-cut | Surat | 2010 | 2 | Export | Thermal |
| Carmichael | Adani Group [13] | Open-cut | Galilee | 2021 | 10 | Export | Thermal |
| Collinsville | Glencore [14] | Open-cut | Bowen Basin | 1919 | 6 | Export & Domestic | Coking & Thermal |
| Coppabella | joint venture with Peabody Energy as majority owner [15] | Open-cut | Bowen | 1998 | 4.2 | Export | Coking |
| Curragh | Coronado Global Resources [16] | Open-cut | Bowen | 2004 | 8.5 | Export & Domestic | Thermal |
| Ensham coal mine | Sungela | Open-cut | Bowen | - | 3.2 | Export & Domestic | Thermal |
| Foxleigh coal mine | joint venture between QMetco, POSCO and Nippon Steel [17] | Open-cut | Bowen | 1999 | 3.1 | Export | Coking |
Callide Power Station is an electricity generator at Mount Murchison, Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It is coal powered with eight steam turbines with a combined generation capacity of 1,720 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Callide A was commissioned in 1965, refurbished in 1998 and decommissioned in 2015/16. As of 2018, generation capacity was 1510 MW.
Mica Creek Power Station is located 5 km south of Mount Isa in north-west Queensland, Australia. It was natural gas powered with 12 turbines of various sizes that generate a combined capacity of 318 MW of electricity. The power station is owned by state government owned Stanwell Corporation.
Stanwell Corporation is a Queensland Government-owned corporation. Stanwell is the state's largest electricity generator and Australia’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter.
The Bowen Basin contains the largest coal reserves in Australia. This major coal-producing region contains one of the world's largest deposits of bituminous coal. The Basin contains much of the known Permian coal resources in Queensland including virtually all of the known mineable prime coking coal. It was named for the Bowen River, itself named after Queensland's first Governor, Sir George Bowen.
Coal is mined in every state of Australia. The largest black coal resources occur in Queensland and New South Wales. About 70% of coal mined in Australia is exported, mostly to eastern Asia, and of the balance most is used in electricity generation. In 2019-20 Australia exported 390 Mt of coal and was the world's largest exporter of metallurgical coal and second largest exporter of thermal coal. While only employing 50,000 mining jobs nationally coal provides a rich revenue stream for governments.
The New Acland Mine is located adjacent to Acland township, about 10 km north of Oakey on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. Geologically it is part of the Walloon Coal Measures and contains more than 500 million tonnes of coal that is removed by the open cut method. The mine is owned and operated by New Hope Group.
The Kogan Creek Power Station is a 750 megawatt coal fired power station owned by CS Energy on the Darling Downs in Queensland. The $1.2 billion plant is situated at Brigalow, in the Surat Basin between Dalby and Chinchilla.
CS Energy is an Australia-based electricity generating company fully owned by the Government of Queensland with its head office located in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. The company was established in 1997 and employs more than 500 staff. Adam Aspinall is the Board Chair and Darren Busine is the Chief Executive Officer.
The Goonyella railway system is located in Central Queensland, Australia. It services the coal mining area of the Bowen Basin, carrying coal to the Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminals 20 km southeast of Mackay, as well as products to other destinations by way of connections to the North Coast Line at Yukan and the Central Line at Burngrove via the Gregory coal mine branch. It is also connected to the coal loading terminal at Abbot Point by the GAP line. The line opened on 5 November 1971 and runs for 477 kilometres. The Goonyella system is narrow gauge 1,067 mm and electrified using 25 kV 50 Hz. The line has been duplicated from Hay Point to Wotonga (174 km) and features CTC signalling over the entire system.
Acland is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Acland had a population of 3 people.
Goonyella Riverside Mine is a large open cut coking coal mine in the Bowen Basin. It is one of many coal mines in Central Queensland, Australia and is located at Moranbah about 30 km north of the township. The mine produced 12.4 million tonnes of metallurgical coal from July 2012 to June 2013. It is owned by BHP Mitsubishi Alliance. The Goonyella Upper Seam, the Goonyella Middle Seam and the Goonyella Lower Seam are all mined at the site. The coal is well known for its great coking characteristics. Much of the coal was such a high grade, the wash plants were often programmed to add ash to meet the contracted export quality targets.
÷Some of the more notable coal companies in Australia are the following:
The Burton Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the north of Central Queensland. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 164 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 4.3 million tonnes of coal. Mining operations began 1995.
The Curragh Coal Mine is an open-cut, coal mine located 30 km north of Blackwater in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 88 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. The mine had an annual production capacity of 7 million tonnes of coal. The mine covers 12,600 ha of the Rangal Coal measures in the Bowen Basin.
The Kestrel Coal Mine is an underground coal mine located in the Bowen Basin at Crinum, 51 km northeast of Emerald in Central Queensland, Australia. In 2013, the mine had coal reserves amounting to 158 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest reserves in Asia and the world.
The Moranbah North Coal Mine is a coal mine in the Bowen Basin at Moranbah in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 261 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 8 million tonnes of coal. Most of the coal is exported and used to produce iron and steel in Asia but also to India, Brazil and Europe via the Goonyella railway line to Hay Point.
The Carmichael coal mine is a coal mine in Queensland, Australia, owned by the Adani Group's Australian subsidiary Bravus Mining & Resources. It was approved by the government in 2014 and has been operational since December 2021. 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.
The Bowen Basin Coalfields contains the largest coal reserves in Australia. This major coal-producing region contains one of the world's largest deposits of bituminous coal. The Basin contains much of the known Permian coal resources in Queensland including virtually all of the known mineable prime coking coal. It was named for the Bowen River, itself named after Queensland's first Governor, Sir George Bowen.
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.
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. The mine has a production life of 80 years and is expected to deliver steelmaking coal to Japan, South Korea, India, and China.
