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Peak Downs Mine is a large open cut coking coal mine in Queensland located 31 km SSE of Moranbah. [1] Peak Downs is one of seven mines in Bowen Basin owned by BHP Mitsubishi Alliance, Australia's largest coal miner and exporter. Production at Peak Downs started in 1972. By 2022 it was producing 37 million tonnes of coal per year. [2]
In the 1860s and 1870s the area was known as "the Peak Downs". [ 3 ] The morphology of this region consisted of numerous distinct peaks of basalt -capped sandstone erupting from a plane, and the area has been worked for copper [ 4 ] and gold extraction since as far back as the 1870s, when it was the primary source for material exported via ...
Peak Downs Mine located 30 km south of the town of Moranbah and 195 km south west of the Hay Point port facilities. Peak Downs is a large, open-cut mining operation, which was developed in the early 1970s. The first coal was mined in April 1972. Today, Peak Downs has a production capacity of nine million tonnes of coking coal per annum. Saraji Mine
Winchester sits on a major coal deposit in the Bowen Basin.There are a number of coal mines operating in the north-east of the locality (and beyond into adjacent localities), including Peak Downs Mine, Peak Downs East Mine, Eagle Downs Mine, and Winchester Mine.
Peak Downs; Saraji; BMA also operates Moranbah Airport and part of the Hay Point Coal Terminal. [3] [4] It operated the Gregory coal mine until March 2019, when it was sold to Japan's Sojitz Corporation. [5] BMA owned the Blackwater and Daunia coal mines until it was sold to Whitehaven Coal in April 2024. [6]
Peak Downs Telegram Office. In the 1860s and 1870s the area around Clermont was known as "the Peak Downs". The first newspaper, the Peak Downs Telegram and Mining Record, was established in August 1864, and the first issue was dated Tuesday, 4 October. [10] [11]
Dawson Central Mine employed 1,560 workers in August 2011. [3] Goonyella Riverside Mine employed 2,360 workers in August 2011. [3] Hail Creek coal mine employed 1,270 workers in August 2011. [3] Peak Downs Mine employed 1,760 workers in August 2011. [3] Saraji coal mine employed 1,615 workers in August 2011. [3]
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.