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Queensland
Coking coal in the Bowen Basin, base metals in the North West Minerals Province, and bauxite at Weipa.
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168
sites in the register
104
operating
30
care & maintenance
34
in development
The districts
Bowen Basin
The world-scale coking-coal basin of central Queensland.
Galilee Basin
A vast thermal-coal basin west of the Bowen.
Surat Basin
Coal and energy country in southern Queensland.
Central Queensland gemfields
Sapphire digs around Emerald and Rubyvale.
Most-recorded commodities
Operating · 104
Agate Creek Gold Amrun Bauxite & alumina Anthill Copper, Magnesite Baralaba Coal Bauxite Hills Bauxite & alumina, Silica sand Blackwater Coal Blair Athol Coal Bluff Coal Boundary Hill Coal Broadlea Coal Broadmeadow Coal Broadmeadow Coal Broadmeadow East Coal Burton Coal Byerwen Coal Callide Coal Cameby Downs Coal Capcoal Complex Coal Capcoal open-cut Coal Capcoal underground Coal Cape Flattery Silica sand Carborough Downs Coal Carborough Downs (GA Estimates) Coal Carmichael Coal Caval Ridge Coal Century Zinc, Silver, Lead Clermont Coal Collinsville Coal Commodore Coal Cook and Cook North Coal Coppabella Coal Cracow Gold, Copper, Silver Curragh Coal Curragh North Coal Daunia Coal Dawson Coal Dawson South Coal Dawson West Coal Drake Coal Duchess Phosphate Dugald River Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold Eastern Creek Coal Ely Bauxite & alumina Ensham Coal Ernest Henry Copper, Gold, Iron ore Foxleigh Coal George Fisher Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper German Creek East Coal Goonyella Riverside Coal Gregory Coal Grosvenor Coal Hail Creek Coal Hey Point Bauxite & alumina Ironbark No.1 Coal Isaac Plains Complex Coal Jax Coal Jellinbah East Coal Kestrel Coal Kogan Creek Coal Kunwarara Magnesite Lady Annie Copper Lady Annie Project Copper, Gold, Magnesite Lake Lindsay Coal Lake Vermont Coal Mammoth Copper Meandu Coal Middlemount Coal Millennium Coal Moorvale Coal Moranbah North Coal Mount Carbine Tungsten, Tin Mount Cuthbert Copper, Silver, Gold Mount Isa (Pb-Zn-Ag orebodies) Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper Mount Kelly Copper, Gold Mount Moss Iron ore Mount Rawdon Gold, Silver Mount Wright Gold New Oakleigh Coal Newlands, Suttor, Eastern (RCM), Newlands OC Coal Nolans Gold Norton Gold Oaky Creek Coal Olive Downs Coking Coal Complex Coal Orion Downs Coal Pajingo Gold, Silver Peak Downs Coal Phantom Hills Phosphate Poitrel Coal Ravenswood Gold, Silver Ravenswood Project Gold, Silver Rolleston Coal Saraji Coal Saraji South Coal Sarsfield Gold Skardon River Kaolin & clay Sonoma Coal South Walker Creek Coal Starra Copper, Gold Suttor Creek Coal Vulcan Coal Weipa Bauxite & alumina, Silica sand Wilkie Creek Coal Wollombi Coal Yarrabee Coal
Care & maintenance · 30
Ardmore Phosphate Care & maintenance Baal Gammon Copper, Tin, Silver Care & maintenance Balcooma Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold Care & maintenance Barbara Copper, Cobalt, Gold, Silver Care & maintenance Black Rock Cave Copper Care & maintenance Capcoal - Aquila Coal Care & maintenance Capricorn Copper Copper, Silver, Cobalt Care & maintenance Charters Towers Gold, Silver Care & maintenance Crinum Coal Care & maintenance Dry River South Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold Care & maintenance King Vol Zinc, Copper, Silver, Lead, Iron ore Care & maintenance Lady Loretta Zinc, Lead, Silver Care & maintenance Lorena Gold, Copper Care & maintenance Monakoff Copper, Gold, Uranium, Cobalt, Silver Care & maintenance Mount Carlton Gold, Silver, Copper Care & maintenance Mount Colin Copper, Gold Care & maintenance Mount Garnet Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper Care & maintenance Mount Margaret-E1 (Glencore) Copper, Gold, Uranium Care & maintenance Mount Watson Copper, Gold Care & maintenance Mungana Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Antimony Care & maintenance New Acland Coal Care & maintenance Norton (Mantle) Gold, Silver Care & maintenance Open Pit (Mount Isa) Copper Care & maintenance Osborne Copper, Gold Care & maintenance Rocklands Copper, Cobalt, Gold, Iron ore Care & maintenance Tartana Copper Care & maintenance Texas Silver, Gold Care & maintenance Thalanga Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Bismuth, Antimony Care & maintenance Urquhart Mineral sands Care & maintenance Wolfram Camp Molybdenum, Tungsten, Bismuth Care & maintenance
In development · 34
Bell Creek Nickel, Cobalt In development Binjour Bauxite & alumina In development Centurion Coal In development Cloncurry Copper In development Cloncurry Copper Project Copper, Gold, Cobalt In development Colton Coal In development Dysart East Coal In development Eagle Downs Coal In development Esmeralda Graphite Project Graphite In development Eva Copper Project Copper, Gold, Silver In development Fairhill Coal In development Greenvale Nickel Nickel, Cobalt, Chromium In development Hillalong (MDL 324) Coal In development Julia Creek Vanadium-Oil Shale (QEM) Molybdenum, Nickel, Zinc, Copper, Vanadium, Bauxite & alumina In development Kokomo Nickel, Cobalt, Platinum group metals, Magnesite In development Lenton Coal In development Lilyvale Vanadium, Molybdenum, Nickel In development Little Eva Copper, Gold In development Lucknow Nickel, Cobalt In development Manfred Vanadium, Molybdenum, Nickel In development Minnamoolka Nickel, Cobalt In development Minyango Coal In development Mount Chalmers Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead In development Red Rock Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Gold In development Richmond Vanadium Project Vanadium, Molybdenum, Nickel In development Saint Elmo Molybdenum, Vanadium, Bauxite & alumina In development SCONI Project Nickel, Cobalt, Platinum group metals, Magnesite, Chromium In development South Johnstone Bauxite & alumina In development Springsure Creek Coal In development Walford Creek Cobalt, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Nickel In development Washpool Coal In development Watershed Tungsten In development White Mountain (Clyde Park) Coal In development Wilton Coal In development
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