Queensland Coal Mines/Sites
130
Yarrabee
Bowen
Operator
Yarrabee Coal Company Pty Ltd
Principal Holder Yarrabee Coal Company Pty Ltd
Phone: +61 7 3211 7950 Fax: +61 7 3211 7328
Location
40km northeast of Blackwater.
Coal Measures:
Major Beneficial
Owner/s
Main tenements
Geology
Rangal Coal Measures of Late Permian age with coal seams dipping
up to 14 degrees around the southern culmination of the Yarrabee
Anticline. The only seam of economic interest in the current mine
area is: Pollux seam - 3.5m to 4.8m thick.
Mining Method Open-cut using bulldozers, scrapers, excavators and trucks for
overburden removal.
Rangal
Transport
35 km by road to Boonal Siding, then 280 km by rail to Gladstone.
Preparation plant The coal is generally crushed to specification and sold as unwashed
product. A prenium product is also produced when required, by
contract washing at a nearby coal preparation plant
Product Coals Low and medium ash semi-anthracite.
Comments
Additional resources to the north and south of the current mining operations are being evaluated for future development or expansion
of mine capacity
Working
Status:
Mine
Type:
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Basin:
Synonyms:
Address
Small
Small
Small
Small
Size*:
Production
1 Million tonnes per annum (2003 - 04).
PO Box 10470 Adelaide Street
BRISBANE
Qld 4001
Street
Postal
Burngrove Fm
Felix Resources Limited
ML 80050
MDL 160
ML 1770
ML 80049
ML 80096
ML 80104
* Sites: Small < 50Mt, Medium 51 to 150Mt, Large 151 to 500Mt, Very Large > 500Mt measured and indicated
Mines: Small < 2Mt, Medium > 2Mt < 10Mt, Large > 5Mt < 10Mt, Very Large > 10Mt annual saleable coal production
Data updated March 2005