÷Some of the more notable coal companies in Australia are the following:
Summary of coal companies + Major Australian coal mining companiesMembers . Australian Coal Association. Retrieved on 23 January 2013. Company Main mines 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. Anglo Coal Foxleigh Mine, Middlemount QLD f. Anglo Coal Grasstree Mine, Middlemount QLD g. Anglo Coal Moranbah North, Moranbah QLD h. Dawson mine, one of Queensland's leading export coal operations, is owned by the Moura Joint Venture, comprising Anglo Coal Australia Pty Ltd (51%) and Mitsui Coal Holdings Pty Ltd (49%) Bloomfield Collieries Pty Ltd 0.88 Bloomfield at East Maitland and Rix's Creek at Singleton BHPBilliton - Hunter Valley Energy Coal 15.0Mount Arthur Coal, Muswellbrook, Hunter ValleyBHP Billiton. 24 July 2009, BHP Billiton Approves Expansion Of Mt Arthur Coal Mine. Retrieved on 23 January 2013. BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) Coal Operations Pty Ltd 58.0 a. Broadmeadow Mine b. Goonyella Riverside c. Gregory Crinum d. Peak Downs Mine e. Saraji Mine f. South Walker Creek Mine g. Poitrel Mine is situated south-east of the town of Moranbah h. Hay Point Coal Terminal, located 38 km south of Mackay Centennial Coal 20.0 Airly, Newstan, Awaba (Closed), Myuna, Mandalong, Mannering, Angus Place, Springvale, Charbon, Berrima, Clarence, Cooranbong (Closed), Munmorah (Closed) Coalpac 1.20 Cullen Valley mine is located in the Western Coalfield, New South Wales Cornwall Coal Company 0.725 NE TasmaniaCoronado Global ResourcesOwns Curragh Coal Mine located in Central Queensland Enhance Place 0.20 Colliery near Lithgow, New South Wales Ensham Resources 9.0 Pits A, B, C & D either side of the Nogoa River - referred to as the ‘Ensham Project’ - and the ‘Yongala’ pit, which is located approximately 5 km to the north of the main Ensham operation Felix Resources 3.90 a. Singleton in the Hunter Valley b. Central Queensland's Bowen Basin c. Emerald in Queensland's Bowen Basin d. The Moolarben coal project is a world class coal asset located 40 km east of Mudgee in the Upper Hunter Valley e. Harrybrandt exploration project, near Nebo, Bowen Basin, Queensland Foxleigh Joint Venture Central Queensland Yancoal 14.00 Donaldson, Gloucester Basin, Monash, Middlemount, Yarrabee, Ashton, Moolarben, Austar Idemitsu Australia Resources 8.00 Western Bowen Basin, Queensland BHP Illawarra Coal 8.00 Jellinbah Group 8.60 Lithgow Coal Company 1.00 Macarthur Coal 5.50 Muswellbrook Coal Company New Hope Group 3.92 Acland on the Darling Downs and at Rosewood near Ipswich Peabody Pacific 22.00 a. Burton mine is located in the Bowen Basin b. North Goonyella underground and Eaglefield open-cut mines are located at the northern end of the Bowen Basin c. Millennium mine is located near the town of Moranbah in the Bowen Basin d. Wilkie Creek mine is located in the Surat Basin of south-east Queensland e. Wilpinjong mine is located 10 kilometres south-east of Ulan mine and 40 kilometres north-east of Mudgee f. Wambo is one of Peabody's largest operating mines and is located in the Hunter Valley g. Chain Valley is located in the Newcastle coalfield on the southern shore of Lake Macquarie h. Metropolitan is located in the Southern coalfields, about 50 kilometres south of Sydney QCoal n/a Owns or co-owns five mines within the Bowen Basin Rio Tinto Coal Australia 5.80 Blair Athol, Hail Creek and Kestrel Mines and is currently constructing the Clermont Mine Project, all in Queensland and in New South Wales, Rio Tinto Coal Australia manages Coal & Allied's operations at Mount Thorley Warkworth, Hunter Valley Operations and Bengalla Vale 8.00 (a) Integra Coal, Hunter Valley, open cast and underground mines, 61.2% owned by Vale. (b) Carborough Downs Mine, Central Queensland, underground longwall mine owned 80% by Vale. (c) Isaac Plains Joint Venture, Central Queensland, open cast mine owned 50% by Vale. Wesfarmers 2.16 a. Premier Coal mine at Collie in Western Australia's south west b. Bengalla mine in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales Whitehaven Coal 23.1 Operates 6 mines in the Gunnedah Region of New South Wales. Several large scale projects are in the works, namely the Vickery Project in Gunnedah and Winchester South project in Central Queensland. Owns and operates Blackwater Mine located in Central Queensland. Xstrata 29.30 a. Westside, New South Wales b. West Wallsend, New South Wales c. Bulga, New South Wales d. Beltana, New South Wales e. Narama, New South Wales f. Mangoola, Hunter Valley, New South Wales g. Mount Owen - The Mount Owen Complex consists of the Mount Owen, Ravensworth East and Glendell open cut coal mines h. Ravensworth, New South Wales i. Ulan Coal j. Baal Bone, New South Wales k. Cumnock, New South Wales l. Narama, New South Wales
Anglo Coal Australia Ltd Anglo Coal Australia Ltd owns and operates a number of mines in Queensland and New South Wales.
Mines Callide mine: is a leading Queensland domestic coal producer providing low-sulphur, sub-bituminous thermal coal primarily for domestic power generation. The coalfields cover an area of 180 square kilometres and contain seams up to 26 metres thick. Annual production is 7 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of sub-bituminous thermal coal. At December 2014, estimates for ROM reserves are approximately 202 Mt of domestic and export thermal quality, with an additional 262 Mt of mineable in-situ resources outside the current mine layout. Capcoal operates three underground mines and an open-cut mine which all produce premium quality hard coking coal for export steel markets. The majority of coal is mined from the German Creek Formation, noted for containing hard coking coal of exceptionally high quality. The German Creek Sequence contains five coal seam intervals known as the German Creek, Corvus, Tieri, Aquila and Pleiades seams. Annual Production: Capcoal mines 11.8 Mt of coal each year to produce in excess of 8.5 Mt of prime quality hard coking coal. Reserves for the mining leases controlled by Capcoal cover 27,343 hectares and estimated resources exceed one billion tonnes with in situ mineable reserves of 125 Mt. Dartbrook mine was an underground mine located north of Muswellbrook, New South Wales. Drayton mine an open cut mine operated by Anglo Coal (Drayton Management) Pty Ltd, located approximately 13 kilometres south east of Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter Valley. It commenced operations in 1983 as a 2 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) thermal coal producer. Foxleigh mineAnglo Coal Australia acquired a 70% interest in Foxleigh coal mine on 29 February 2008. Foxleigh is an open-cut operation located adjacent to Anglo Coal Australia's Capcoal Surface Operation, in the heart of the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland. Foxleigh currently produces a low volatile pulverised coal injection (PCI) coal product for use in steelmaking applications around the world. Foxleigh coal is taken from the Middlemount, Tralee, Roper and Pisces seams from within the Rangal coal measures in the southern Bowen Basin. Annual Production: Foxleigh produces approximately 2.5 million tonnes per annum of pulverised coal injection (PCI) coal for the steelmaking industry. The mine's production capacity is 3.3 million tonnes per annum of product coal. Reserves are estimated at 290 million tonnes – Foxleigh and surrounding tenements are the subject of ongoing exploration and feasibility studies. Grasstree mineUnderground longwall mine produces approx 10 million tonnes per annum of metallurgical coal. It is located near Middlemount Central Queensland. Moranbah North coal mine located in the northern part of Queensland's Bowen Basin around 18 kilometres north of the town of Moranbah. Mining commenced at Moranbah North in 1998. The mining lease covers annual production of 4.5 Mt of hard coking coal. Reserves of over 20 years mine life. Dawson mine located in Moura, Queensland, has been an open-cut mine since 1994.
Bloomfield Collieries Pty Ltd The Bloomfield Group is an Australian owned group of private companies which operate in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. The Group has interests in mining and engineering. It operates two open-cut coal mines: Bloomfield at East Maitland and Rix's Creek at Singleton. Rix's Creek is 5 km north west of Singleton on the New England Highway. Situated in the Whittingham Coal Measures, it is part of the Singleton Super Group including the Barrett, Liddell, Arties and Pikes Gully seams. The mine produces 0.88 million tonnes per annum.
BHP
BMA Jointly owned with Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd, the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) is Australia's largest coal miner and exporter, and the world's largest supplier to the sea borne coking coal market. BMA's mines are located in the coal-rich Bowen Basin of Central Queensland, where BMA owns and operates six mines – Goonyella Riverside, Broadmeadow, Peak Downs, Saraji, Norwich Park and Gregory Crinum – and the Hay Point terminal near Mackay. The Bowen Basin covers an area of 75,000 km2 of Permian Age marine and freshwater sediments and is roughly triangular in shape, extending around 550 km from its northern peak at Collinsville, southwards to its base at Theodore, where it is approximately 250 km wide. With the exception of the Crinum and Broadmeadow underground longwall operations, the mines are open-cut, using dragline and truck/shovel fleets for overburden removal. Coal seams are mined by front end loader and hydraulic excavators, and coal is transported to mine preparation plants by large capacity haul trucks.
Mines The mines managed by the BMA have a capacity to produce 58 million tonnes of coal annually, which are currently sold to over 93 customers in 23 countries, including Japan, the UK, Europe, South America, Korea, Taiwan and India.
Broadmeadow Mine BMA's newest punch longwall underground operation on the Goonyella Riverside lease, commenced longwall mining in August 2005. Broadmeadow Mine is located 30 km north of Moranbah and 190 km south west of Mackay and has the capacity to produce over three million tonnes of high quality coking coal a year. Goonyella Riverside produces over 14 million tonnes of coking coal a year. The mine is located 30 km north of Moranbah and 190 km south west of the Hay Point port facilities. It is the northernmost of the mines operated by BMA in the Bowen Basin. Gregory Crinum located 60 km north east of the rural centre of Emerald and 375 km north west of Gladstone and comprises the Gregory open-cut operations and Crinum underground mine. Gregory open-cut coal mine became operational in 1979, with the first shipment taking place in 1980. Production has been scaled back since the commissioning of the adjacent Crinum underground longwall mine in 1997. Norwich Park Mine located 24 km south east of Dysart and 266 km south west of Mackay. Norwich Park open-cut coal mine began production in 1979 and has a production capacity of 5.5 million tonnes of coking coal and ultra low volatile coal a year. It was closed down May 2012. 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 located 24 km south of Peak Downs mine and 213 km south west of the Hay Point coal export terminal. Construction of the Saraji open-cut coking coal mine began in late 1972 and production began in the latter part of 1974. Saraji has a current production capacity of eight million tonnes of high grade coking coal a year.