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Blackwater is a rural town and locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 2021 census , the locality of Blackwater had a population of 4,702 people. [ 1 ]
The Blackwater coal mine is an Open Cut Coal mine located in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland, Australia. It is south of the town of Blackwater in Stewarton , Central Highlands Region . The mine has coal reserves amounting to 877 million tonnes of coking coal , one of the largest coal reserves in Australia and the world, and has a strike ...
The Blackwater Herald was a weekly newspaper published in Blackwater, Queensland from 5 August 1978 until 2 February 2016. [1]With the slogan "the coal country newspaper", the Blackwater Herald had a strong focus on the town of Blackwater which was experiencing rapid population growth at the time the newspaper was launched due to the coal mining boom in the district. [2]
The Blackwater railway system is located in Central Queensland and services the coal mining area of the Bowen Basin. It carries coal, as well as products, to other destinations by way of connections to the North Coast Line at Rocklands and the Goonyella Line via Gregory coal mine to Oaky Creek.
It was named for the Bowen River, itself named after Queensland's first Governor, Sir George Bowen. The Bowen Basin covers an area of over 60,000 square kilometres in Central Queensland running from Collinsville to Theodore. There was a combined population of 41,973 people in the area in 2001.
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. [1]
Gangulu traditional lands occupied an estimated 16,000 square kilometres (6,000 sq mi) about the Dawson River as far south as Banana and Theodore.To the northwest, they extended as far as the Mackenzie River and the vicinity of Duaringa and Coomooboolaroo.
A railway line which is part of the Blackwater rail system passes through the south-west of the locality. [3] There are three railway stations on this line within the locality (from north to south): Fairhill railway station ( 23°18′28″S 148°33′23″E / 23.3077°S 148.5563°E / -23.3077; 148.5563 ( Fairhill railway station