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Bowen Basin
Digging overburden at Dawson Mine near Moura, 2008
Map showing the location of Bowen Basin
Map showing the location of Bowen Basin
Location of the basin in Australia
Map showing the location of Bowen Basin in relation to Australia
Coordinates23°10′39.55″S 148°22′22.80″E / 23.1776528°S 148.3730000°E / -23.1776528; 148.3730000
EtymologyBowen River, George Bowen
CountryBowen Basin Australia
State(s)Queensland, New South Wales (minor)
CitiesCollinsville, Theodore
Characteristics
On/OffshoreOnshore
BoundariesAtherton Tableland
Part ofGalilee Basin
Area~60,000 km2 (23,000 sq mi)
Hydrology
River(s)Bowen River
Geology
Basin typeRift basin
PlateAustralian
OrogenyHunter-Bowen
AgePermian-Holocene
StratigraphyStratigraphy
Field(s)Bowen Basin Coalfields

The Bowen Basin contains the largest coal reserves in Australia. This major coal-producing region contains one of the world's largest deposits of bituminous coal. The Basin contains much of the known Permian coal resources in Queensland including virtually all of the known mineable prime coking coal. It was named for the Bowen River, itself named after Queensland's first Governor, Sir George Bowen.

The Bowen Basin covers an area of over 60,000 square kilometres in Central Queensland running from Collinsville to Theodore. There was a combined population of 41,973 people in the area in 2001. The ornamental snake is a small reptile native to the Bowen Basin region.

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Abbot Point

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75 km off-shore. Coal reaches the port via the GAP railway line from the Bowen Basin Coalfields. The Port of Abbot Point is of significant strategic value...

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basin system that contains the Cooper Basin, situated towards the south-west of the Galilee Basin, and the Bowen Basin to the east. The Galilee Basin...

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Geology of New South Wales

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Australia was supplying around half of all its exports to Japan. As the Bowen Basin Coalfields were developed, open-cut mines became more common. From the...

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Curragh coal mine

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of coal. The mine covers 12,600 ha of the Rangal Coal measures in the Bowen Basin. In 2012, production at the mine was increased to 8.5 million tonnes...

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Surat Basin

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sedimentary basin rocks of the Hunter-Bowen Orogen. The Surat Basin overlies parts of the Bowen Basin in southern Queensland, and overlies the Gunnedah Basin in...

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Moranbah North coal mine

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The Moranbah North Coal Mine is a coal mine in the Bowen Basin at Moranbah in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 261...

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Sydney Basin

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500 kilometres (930 mi) from the Bowen Basin in Queensland through to the Gunnedah Basin in NSW. Onshore, the basin contains 4,500 metres (14,800 ft)...

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BHP Mitsubishi Alliance

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was established in 2001. The BMA alliance operates seven mines in the Bowen Basin: Blackwater Broadmeadow Caval Ridge Daunia Goonyella Riverside Peak Downs...

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Blackwater coal mine

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The Blackwater coal mine is an Open Cut Coal mine located in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland, south of the town of Blackwater. The mine has coal...

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Bowen Consolidated Colliery

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one of the earliest and most intact former coal mines in the Bowen Basin. The Bowen Basin covers an area about 600 kilometres (370 mi) long and 250 kilometres...

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Saraji coal mine

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production capacity of 10 million tonnes of coal. It is located in the Bowen Basin, an area with significant coal deposits and numerous mines. It is owned...

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Open-cut Bowen Basin 1919 6 Export & Domestic Coking & Thermal Coppabella joint venture with Peabody Energy as majority owner Open-cut Bowen 1998 4.2...

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Glossopteris

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Newlands coal mine

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The Newlands Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the north of the Bowen Basin at Newlands about 28 km northwest of Glenden in North Queensland, Australia...

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Olive Downs mine

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The Olive Downs mine is an open-cut mine for metallurgical coal in the Bowen Basin of Queensland, Australia. It is located 40 kilometres south-east of Moranbah...

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Ensham coal mine

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located 40 km east of Emerald in Central Queensland, Australia. The Bowen Basin mine has coal reserves amounting to 1.48 billion tonnes of coking coal...

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Jellinbah coal mine

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The Jellinbah East Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the Bowen Basin at Jellinbah in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting...

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Brigalow Belt

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The Northern Brigalow Belt includes the coal producing Bowen Basin, with the nearby Drummond Basin and the fertile Peak Downs areas. The southern belt,...

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Collinsville coal mine

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Region, Queensland, Australia. The open-cut mine lies in the northern Bowen Basin. Collinsville produces coking and steaming coal for both domestic use...

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Dawson coal mine

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infrastructure. The Dawson coal mine lies in the Baralaba Coal Measures of the Bowen Basin. Coking, soft coking and thermal coal have all been produced at the mine...

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German Creek coal mine

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6 million tonnes of coal. The German Creek Formation lies within the Bowen Basin and is noted for containing hard coking coal of exceptionally high quality...

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