Coal in Australia

Answer 1

Coal was Australia's top export earner in the late 1990s. Most coal mining takes place in New South Wales and Queensland, A lower grade of coal called lignite, used to produce electricity, is mined in Victoria.

Answer 2

Coal is burned to generate electricity in Australia. The coal is burnt to heat water into steam, and the steam is used to turn turbines. These generate electricity.

Loy Yang coal mine, in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria,

* is the biggest coal mine in the Southern Hemisphere.

* It excavates about 30 million tonnes of brown coal each year.

* It burns 65,000 tonnes of brown coal every day,

* This releases the same amount of carbon dioxide as 60 million cars. * There is enough brown coal easily accessible underground to continue like this for the next 1300 years. At Loy Yang, the burning coal produces electricity at between 21,000 and 24,000 volts. It passes through a transformer to increase it to 500,000 volts and it is passed out into the electricity grid. At its destination the power is reduced at substations and Transformers down to 240 volts A/C at 50 Hz for households and 415 volts A/C at 50 Hz for industrial applications.

Answer 3

The main coal mining in Australia occurs in a number of places in the eastern half of the country.

In New South Wales and Queensland, about 96% of Australia's black coal is mined. It is 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 mostly mined in the Latrobe Valley in Gippsland.

Answer 4

There are dozens. Black coal is mined in NSW and QLd, brown coal in Victoria. Coal occurs in the other states and NT but not in commercially viable amounts.

Answer 5

Coal is found in Australia near Newcastle in New South Wales, also in the Southeastern area of the state of Victoria. It is prolific through parts of western Queensland.

Answer 6

In Australian Coal/Iron/Steel mining areas.

See - http://www.australiancoal.com.au/environmentmethane.htm

Answer 7

Australia was covered in ice during a key geologic period.

Answer 8

australia gets coal from itself it mines it then exports it to other countries

Answer 9

everywhere cuz