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Goonyella Riverside Mine is a large open cut coking coal mine in the Bowen Basin. [1] It is one of many coal mines in Central Queensland, Australia and is located at Moranbah about 30 km north of the township. [2] The mine produced 12.4 million tonnes of metallurgical coal from July 2012 to June 2013. [3] In 2019 this figure was 17.1 million ...
The mine has coal reserves amounting to 175 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Australia and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 2 million tonnes of coal. [1] 2.6 million tonnes of coal were produced in 2012. [2] North Goonyella was acquired by Peabody Energy in 2004. [3]
A fire boss is a person employed at a mine or state certified official, responsible for examining a mine for dangers, particularly explosive, poisonous or suffocating gases. Usually the fire boss is the first person to enter a mine , to verify its safety, before a shift crew enters.
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.
Major Australian coal mining companies [1] Company Total coal mined (Million tonnes (Mt) pa) Main mines Anglo American Metallurgical Coal Ltd: 32.00: a. Anglo Coal Callide Mine, Queensland b. Anglo Coal Capcoal Mine, Middlemount QLD c. Anglo Coal Dartbrook Mine, Muswellbrook NSW d. Anglo Coal Drayton Mine, Muswellbrook NSW e.
The Blackwater Coal Chain services 15 mines, operated by BMA, Xstrata, Rio Tinto, Curragh, Ensham, Felix, and Jellinbah. Haulage is expected to progressively increase in the Blackwater system as haulage contracts, combined with enquiries from coal companies for additional haulage capacity (domestic and export), exceeds 80 Mpta by 2008–09.
North Goonyella coal mine; Norwich Park coal mine; O. Oaky Creek coal mine; Olive Downs Complex; P. Peak Downs Mine; R. Rolleston coal mine; S. Saraji coal mine ...
GAG units have been used in Australia, most notably in 2000 at the Blair Athol Mine, Queensland, where one extinguished a 54-year-old coal fire. [7] In 2003, a team from the Queensland Mine Rescue Service took a unit to West Virginia, where they successfully extinguished a 660-foot (200 m) deep, two-month-old fire at Loveridge Mine, after ten days of continuous use.