Steelmaking coal is an essential ingredient in blast-furnace steel manufacture, producing steel used for critical building and infrastructure around the world. In Australia, we operate five steelmaking coal mines in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, and have additional joint venture interests in steelmaking coa...
Currently, the Abandoned Mines Unit, Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Queensland are custodians of the site; with liabilities for the waste rock piles alone estimated as AUD $1.8 million [13]. At the largest Croydon mine operations site (Figure 1B) two pits lakes now remain (...