Where in Australia is coal produced?

Answer 1

Coal mining in Australia occurs in a number of places in the eastern half of the country, and Australia is the world's fifth largest coal producer.

In New South Wales where, together with Queensland, about 96% of Australia's coal is mined, black coal can be found near the eastern and western edges of the Sydney-Gunnedah Basin; in the Wollongong-Appin-Bulli area; Lithgow-Mudgee area; along the Hunter Valley from Newcastle in the south to Muswellbrook in the north; Yarrawonga (near Gunnedah); Appin; and Tahmoor.

In Queensland, the coal product occurs mainly at Goonyella and Kestrel in the Bowen Basin, which extends south from Collinsville to beyond Blackwater and Moura; the Callide Basin; the Surat and Moreton Basins between Wandoan and Millmerran; Wilkie Creek; New Acland; Newlands; Rolleston; Commodore; Jellinbah East; and Coppabella.

Other important black coal mines include Muja and Premier in Western Australia); Leigh Creek in South Australia; and Duncan in Tasmania.

Victoria is the only state that produces brown coal in significant quantities, but Austraa is ranked 1st in world production of brown coal, with around 24% of the world's known supplies. It is mined in the Latrobe Valley in Gippsland; Bacchus Marsh; Altona; and Anglesea. Smaller mines are found in the St Vincents and Murray Basins and around Pidinga in South Australia; in the Murray Basin in New South Wales and Victoria; at Waterpark Creek near Rockhampton in Queensland; and at Scaddan, O'Sullivans and Balladonia in the south east of Western Australia.

Answer 2

Australia is the leading producer of coal in Australia.

Answer 3

Newcastle was Australia's first coal-mining city, and is still a significant coal-mining city today.

Answer 4

it is transported in mining trucks