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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
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 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. [1]
The mine has an annual production capacity of 8 million tonnes of coal. [1] 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. [2] The longwall mining operations at the mine began in 1998. [2] Extraction occurs roughly 200 metres below the ...
[5] [6] Mining employed 19.8% of the north Queensland population in 1868, and 50% by 1876, before dropping to 15% in 1911. [7] Although gold mining attracted people to north Queensland, alluvial finds of gold usually led to temporary townships, whereas underground reef mining held the promise of more stable and permanent settlements. [1]
The George Fisher Mine is a mine located in Mount Isa in Queensland, Australia. It is one of the largest zinc, lead and silver mines in the world. [1] The mine is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Mount Isa CBD in North West Queensland. The mine has estimated reserves of 150.4 million ounces of silver. [1]
The Mount Elliott mine is a large copper mine located in eastern Australia in Queensland, 100 kilometres south of Cloncurry. Mount Elliott represents one of the largest copper reserves in Australia and in the world having estimated reserves of 475 million tonnes of ore grading 0.5% copper and 4.56 million oz of gold. [1] The mine is owned by ...
Miners continued prospecting the area. In 1906 gold was discovered at the Tunnel, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northeast of Lower Camp. The discovery of gold at Plutoville (Top Camp) by an Aboriginal man named Pluto in 1910 was suppressed, to allow Coen and Ebagoola miners first choice of the ground, and a rush did not take place until mid 1911. [1] [2]