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Peak Downs Mine

Coal Handling and Preparation Plant
Location
Peak Downs MineLocation in Australia
Location	Moranbah
State	Queensland
Country	Australia
Coordinates	22°15′16″S 148°10′50″E / 22.25444°S 148.18056°E / -22.25444; 148.18056
Production
Products	Coal
Production	37,000,000 Tonnes / Year
History
Opened	April 1972
Owner
Company	BHP Mitsubishi Alliance

Peak Downs Mine is a large open cut coking coal mine in Queensland located 31 km SSE of Moranbah. Peak Downs is one of seven mines in Bowen Basin owned by BHP Mitsubishi Alliance, Australia's largest coal miner and exporter. Production at Peak Downs started in 1972. By 2022 it was producing 37 million tonnes of coal per year.

The Caval Ridge Coal Mine, which will be located adjacent to Peak Downs, will begin construction in 2011 and export by 2014. It is expected to process 2.5 million tons of coal each year from Peak Downs.

The National Pollution Inventory revealed this mine was the biggest generator of airborne pollution in the country for the 2015–16 financial year.

See also

• Coal in Australia
• List of coal mines in Queensland

References

1. "About BMA". Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
2. "Peak Downs mine". www.bhp.com. BHP. Archived from the original on 18 October 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
3. Esmarie Swanepoel (13 August 2010). "Queensland approves A$4bn BHP-Mitsubishi coal mine". Mining Weekly. Creamer Media. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
4. Cameron Atfield (15 April 2017). "Queensland mines top list of Australia's biggest coal dust polluters". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2017.

External links

• "Peak Downs". Queensland Places. University of Queensland.

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