Image of aerial view of open cut coal mine at dusk in Hunter Valley Austockphoto


Bowen Basin & Hunter Valley Coal Mines BOHOGS

Robert Logan Jack was a Queensland Government geologist who originally reported coal deposits in the basin in 1878. The area around Collinsville was first explored for resources in the 1920s. In 2006, 60% of Australia's exported coking coal came out of the Bowen Basin. In 2010, nearly all the mines in the basin were affected by record flooding.


Throwback Thursday Hunter coal mines photos Newcastle Herald Newcastle, NSW

Eleven new coal projects were added to the NSW major projects list in 2020 alone, with annual capacity of nearly 70 million tonnes, far more than in preceding years. In the Upper Hunter Valley, proposals for new projects have a combined output of 98 million tonnes per year, equivalent to ten new Adani-sized mines.


Dartbrook Mine Australian Pacific Coal

A mine in Hunter Valley would release 1.1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over the next 27 years, 2.5 times the nation's total emissions, if given the green light.


Throwback Thursday Hunter coal mines photos The Maitland Mercury Maitland, NSW

Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) is a multi-pit open cut mine, using a dragline truck and shovel method. The operation's employees work in shifts to keep the mine operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Operations are centred in the Whittingham Coal Measures of the Hunter Coalfield, which is part of a Permian coal basin known as the Sydney.


Hunter Valley Operations

Shutterstock The decline of the coal industry means 17 mines in the New South Wales Hunter Valley will close over the next two decades. More than 130,000 hectares of mining land — nearly two-thirds of the valley floor between Broke and Muswellbrook — will become available for new uses. Restoring and reusing this land could contribute billions of dollars to the Hunter economy, create.


Throwback Thursday Hunter coal mines photos The Maitland Mercury Maitland, NSW

Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) is a joint venture between Yancoal (51%) and Glencore (49%) which is independently managed on behalf of the JV partners. Continuation project The HVO Continuation Project aims to recover further coal resources within the existing mining tenements at HVO, extending the life of mine from 2025 to 2050 at HVO North.


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The Hunter Valley mine is seeking to lock in exports out to 2050. Credit: Bloomberg The operators of the open cut mine complex, a joint venture between Yancoal and Glencore, are seeking to extend.


Coal mining devastates villages and cultural heritage in Australia’s Hunter Valley CHANGING TIMES

Download scientific diagram | Members of the Hunter Valley Coal Chain (PWCS, 2017) from publication: Environmental and other effects of mining and transport | Historically coal mining is.


Deep open cut black coal mine of Thorley mount in Hunter Valley, Australia. Vertical top down

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Aerial view of open cut coal mine Hunter Valley NSW Australia Stock Photo Alamy

Mine Life. 58 years (as of Jan 1, 2022) Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) is a large-scale open cut operation that produces some of the highest quality thermal and semi-soft metallurgical coal in the world. HVO is an amalgamation of three previously independent mining operations, namely: Howick, Hunter Valley and Lemington.


Throwback Thursday Hunter coal mines photos Port Stephens Examiner Nelson Bay, NSW

These mines are meeting existing demand, and with demand likely to decrease in the future new coal mines will produce at the expense of the existing mines. Coal mines have a major impact on the landscape and environment of the Hunter Valley. Most mines will leave behind at least one large hole, or final void. These voids often fill with very.


Open cut mine Hunter Valley NSW Australia Stock Photo Alamy

Estimated Investment : £287m ($380m) More. The United Wambo open-cut coal mine is a major coal mining project located in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia. It is a joint venture project by Grencore and Peabody Energy to integrate the existing open-cut operations at the Wambo coal mine with a new open-cut mine at the.


Image of open cut coal mine in Bulga area of the Hunter Valley in the evening Austockphoto

The decline of the coal industry means 17 mines in the New South Wales Hunter Valley will close over the next two decades. More than 130,000 hectares of mining land — nearly two-thirds of the.


Throwback Thursday Hunter coal mines photos The Maitland Mercury Maitland, NSW

Coal exports through the Port of Newcastle have been weak this year and the Department of Industry said Australia exported 182 million tonnes of thermal coal in the year to June; well below the.


Hunter Valley Operations Yancoal

THE Hunter Valley region is undoubtedly one of NSW's engine rooms, and a powerhouse of Australian mining. Its history goes all the way back to the early 1800s, when the government began mining the first coal in the colony's history. Today, the Hunter Valley is home to more than 272,000 people and comprises 41 coal mines owned by 11 producers.


Rio Tinto's Hunter Valley Operations complex by D. Sewell Lock the Gate Alliance Flickr

An empty coal train heads west through Maitland bound for the coal mines. The Hunter Valley Coal Chain (HVCC) is the chain of coal delivery in New South Wales, Australia from (mainly open-cut) coal mines in the Hunter Region to the Port of Newcastle and domestic coal-fired power stations in the Hunter Valley. The HVCC essentially follows the path of the Hunter River travelling south-east from.