The Foxleigh Coal Mine is a coal mine in Mackenzie River, Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. It is within the Bowen Basin coal reserves of Central Queensland. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 102 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 3 million tonnes of coal.[1]
Coal extracted from the mine has a very low ash content which is rare in Australia and valued by steelmakers.[2]
The mine is owned by Middlemount South, POSCO[3] and Nippon Steel. Exports leave the country via the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal at Hay Point.
History
A worker at the mine was killed on 18 December 2010, when a truck tyre exploded.[4]
Anglo American acquired a 70% stake in Foxleigh in 2007. Nippon Steel bought a 10% stake in the mine from Itochu in 2010.[5]
In 2016, Anglo American sold their 70% share of the Foxleigh coal mine to Middlemount South, a subsidiary of Taurus Funds Management.[6][7]
See also
- Coal in Australia
- List of mines in Australia
References
- Bowen Basin coal mines bowenbasin.com, 2012, retrieved 2013-07-03^
- Nippon takes stake in Foxleigh mine The Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax Media, 5 August 2010, retrieved 2 August 2014^
- Foxleigh Anglo American, retrieved 2 August 2014^
- Janessa Ekert. Coronial inquest into death of miner at Foxleigh Mine The Daily Mercury, The Mackay Printing and Publishing Company, 21 May 2014, retrieved 2 August 2014^
- Masumi Suga, Ichiro Suzuki. Nippon Steel Acquires 10% of Foxleigh Metallurgical Coal Mine From Itochu Bloomberg, 4 August 2010, retrieved 2 August 2014^
- Cole Latimer. Middlemount South buys Anglo American Foxleigh coal mine Australian Mining, Prime Creative Media, 29 August 2016, retrieved 19 September 2016^
- Anglo American. Anglo American completes sale of the Foxleigh mine Anglo American (Media Release), Anglo American, 29 August 2016, retrieved 21 September 2016^