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The Minerals Council, headed by CEO Stephen Galilee, has run a number of campaigns recently highlighting, in their opinion the social and economic benefits conveyed on the Hunter Valley by the mining industry, especially the coal mining industry, in the face of campaigning by locals, farmers and environmentalists, concerned about mining's impacts food & water supply, coal dust health impacts ...
In 1976 the site was sold to Austin & Butta Collieries who donated the site to the City of Lithgow in 1990 with restoration work commencing shortly after. [3] In October 2001 a fire destroyed the carriage shed and a number of items of rolling stock. [4] The site is also used by Southern Shorthaul Railroad as a maintenance depot. [5] [6]
Tahmoor Colliery is an underground coal mine at Tahmoor in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales, Australia.It operates in the Bulli coal seam. Most of the mine product is hard coking coal used for steel making.
The Ridgeway Deeps mine site contains a large number of autonomous systems including Sandvik Automine for automating the underground loaders and Transmin Rocklogic for automating the rockbreakers. Ridgeway materials handling system is automated by controllogix PLC and CitectSCADA. Concentrator is automated by Yokogawa DCS centum VP.
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]
The Mining and Energy Union (MEU) is Australia's main trade union in the coal industry, which includes mines, power stations and ports.It also covers workers in the metalliferous mining and exploration industries, as well as specific classes of workers working in the oil, gas, nuclear, chemical production and power generation industries. [1]
Yancoal was established in 2004 with the acquisition of the Austar coal mine in the Hunter Valley. [1] In June 2012 it was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. [2] In September 2017 Coal & Allied was purchased by Yancoal from Rio Tinto.
Operational Status of Australian Mines and Mineral Deposits Status Count Comments Mineral Deposit: 2068: Under Development: 38: A mineral deposit that is currently under development