Curragh coal mine

Curragh Coal Mine

Dragline, 2008
Location
Queensland
Country Australia
Production
Products Coking coal
Owner
Company Wesfarmers Resources

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] The mine covers 12,600 ha of the Rangal Coal measures in the Bowen Basin.[2]

In 2012, production at the mine was increased to 8.5 million tonnes a year.[3] Later in the year operations changed from seven days per week to five.[3]

Curragh Coal Mine is owned by Wesfarmers Resources and has an expected mine life to 2025. Overburden is removed by Thiess.[2]

Exports from the mine leave the country via the Blackwater railway system and the Port of Gladstone. Some of the coal is used to produce electricity at the Stanwell Power Station.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bowen Basin coal mines". bowenbasin.com. 2012. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
  2. 1 2 "Curragh Mine, Queensland, Australia". mining-technology.com. Net Resources International. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  3. 1 2 Andrew Burrell (27 July 2012). "Wesfarmers' Curragh coalmine in Bowen Basin boosts output by 18pc". The Australian (News Limited). Retrieved 24 August 2013.

Coordinates: 23°28′01″S 148°51′11″E / 23.467°S 148.853°E / -23.467; 148.853

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