Newlands coal mine
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 Newlands Coal Mine
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| Location | Newlands |
| Queensland | |
| Country | Australia |
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| Production | |
| Products | Coking coal |
| History | |
| Opened | 1983 |
| Owner | |
| Company | Glencore |
The Newlands Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the north of the Bowen Basin at Newlands about 28 km northwest of Glenden in North Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 413 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 10.6 million tonnes of coal.[1]
The mine is owned by Glencore. Mining operations began in 1983.[2]
Operations at the mine are conducted both underground and in an open-cut pit from a single coal seam, the Upper Newlands seam which has an average thickness of six metres.[2] However underground operations will cease in 2015.[3] Underground mining began in 1998.[2]
