Queensland’s mineral, coal and petroleum operations and
resources map2017
Department of Natural Resources and Mines
Geological information hotlinePhone: 13 QGOV (13 74 68) Email: [email protected]
Southern RegionPetroleum Assessment Hub(Brisbane District Office)1 William Street PO Box 15216 City East Qld 4002 Phone: +61 7 3199 7774
Quilpie District OfficePO Box 29 Quilpie Qld 4480 Phone: +61 7 4656 1266 Fax: +61 7 4656 1442
Dalby District OfficePO Box 993 Dalby Qld 4405 Phone: + 61 7 4669 0815 Fax: + 61 7 4531 8520
Central RegionCoal Assessment Hub – RockhamptonPO Box 3679 Red Hill Qld 4701 Phone: +61 7 4936 0169 Fax: + +61 7 4936 0375
Small Scale Mining Assessment Hub(Emerald District Office)PO Box 245 Emerald Qld 4720 Phone: + 61 7 4987 9350
Winton District OfficePO Box 230 Winton Qld 4735 Phone: + 61 7 4657 1727 Fax: + 61 7 4657 1760
Northern RegionMineral Assessment Hub – TownsvillePO Box 1752 Townsville Qld 4810 Phone: + 61 7 4936 0169 Fax: + 61 7 4760 7400
Mount Isa District OfficePO Box 334 Mount Isa Qld 4825 Phone: + 61 7 4747 2041 Fax: + 61 7 4743 7165
Charters Towers District OfficePO Box 62 Charters Towers Qld 4820 Phone: + 61 7 4761 5762 Fax: + 61 7 4761 5760
Mareeba District OfficePO Box 2266 Mareeba Qld 4880 Phone: + 61 7 4048 4785 Fax: + 61 7 4092 4224
Georgetown District OfficePO Box 28 Georgetown Qld 4871 Phone: + 61 7 4062 1204
General enquiries1800 657 567
Contact details
The Department of Natural Resources and Mines works with industry to sustainably develop and manage Queensland’s resource assets and deliver a safe, world-class mining industry. The department is responsible for policies and procedures to facilitate exploration and development of our resources for the economic benefit of Queensland.
Mining has been vital to the development of Queensland through establishing inland towns and cities as well as providing jobs and billions of dollars in export earnings. The department promotes the state’s potential, assists in land access negotiations, collects and distributes geological data, manages safety and health standards and encourages environmental best practice.
www.dnrm.qld.gov.au
Department of Natural Resources and Mines
Within its boundaries, a wide variety of economically important mineral, coal and petroleum resources can be found. The best known resource regions are the:
� Surat and Bowen basins (southern central Queensland)— coal and coal seam gas
� Weipa region (north Queensland)—bauxite and kaolin
� North West Queensland Mineral Province—base metals, phosphate, gold, molybdenum, graphite and rare earths
� Charters Towers region (north-east Queensland)—gold and limestone
� South-west Queensland region (Cooper and Eromanga basins)—oil and gas.
Queensland’s mining and petroleum industries are of prime economic importance to the state. In 2015–16 they produced commodities worth $29.73 billion. According to ABS statistics August 2016, Queensland’s exploration, mineral, coal and petroleum industries directly employed over 60 000 people.
Metals, industrial minerals and rocksIn 2015–16, Queensland ranked as one of the largest producers of lead, zinc, copper, bauxite and gold in Australia.
The North West Queensland Mineral Province dominates base metal production and is a major gold and phosphate rock producer. North Queensland is also a leading mineral province and an important producer of bauxite, silica sand, base metals, gold and, more recently, tungsten. Other commodities include scandium, molybdenum, rhenium and rare earths. Industrial minerals produced in Queensland include bentonite, kaolin and ceramic clays, diatomite, dimension stone, dolomite, feldspar, gypsum, limestone, lump silica, magnesite, magnetite, mineral sands (rutile, ilmeniteand zircon), perlite, salt and zeolite.
CoalQueensland has a rich endowment of high-quality coal resources, with more than 34 billion tonnes (raw coal in-situ) having been identified by drilling operations. Identified resources of coking coal amount to approximately 8.7 billion tonnes, of which about 4 billion tonnes are suitablefor open-cut mining.
Queensland’s world-class coal mines and infrastructure, including electrified rail links from the coalfields, allow efficient production and transport of coal to six coal-export terminals. At these terminals, ships of up to 230 000 deadweight tonnes load export coal for distribution to the world market.
Queensland’s saleable coal production in 2015–16 amounted to a total of 242.2 million tonnes (Mt). Exports totaling 221.5 Mt, worth A$21.5 billion free-on-board, were made to 30 countries. An additional 23.5 million tonnes were supplied to domestic markets.
PetroleumQueensland has sedimentary basins ranging in age from Precambrian to Tertiary with a variety of geological settings and histories.
In Queensland, the systematic exploration for petroleum commenced in 1960, and the state remains largely under-explored, with a low well density in many of the highly prospective areas.
Exploration has resulted in the discovery of commercial petroleum accumulations in the Adavale Basin, the Bowen and Surat basins, and the Cooper and Eromanga basins. More than 4000 km of transmission pipelines connect producing gas fields to markets within Queensland, particularly south-east Queensland, Gladstone and Mount Isa.
Since the mid-1990s, coal seam gas (CSG) has grown to become the dominant source of gas, supplying over 90 per cent of the Queensland market and over 99 per cent of remaining proved and probable gas reserves.
Queensland now has three operating LNG plants located in Gladstone.
Queensland is one of the world’s outstanding mineral and energy producing regions.
Bauxite processing. Photo: DNRM. Coal processing. Photo: DNRM. Photo: DNRM.
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Export Port CoalMineral
Major mining operations and mineral resources
Major coal and petroleum operations and resources
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ResourceResource
Metals
Industrialmineralsand rocks
Gemstones
Mineralsands
LNG
Bauxite Cobalt Copper Gold Indium Iron Lead MolybdenumNickel Scandium Silver Tin Tungsten Uranium Vanadium Zinc
Chrysoprase Opal Sapphire
Apatite Bentonite Brick clay Diatomite Dolomite Fluorite Feldspar Gallium Granite Gypsum Ilmenite Kaolin Limestone Magnesite Magnetite Marble Potash Perlite Porphyry stone Phosphate Rare earths Rhenium Salt Sandstone Silica Silica sand Siltstone Slate Sodium bicarbonate Zeolite
ResourceResource
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Oil shale
Conventionalpetroleum
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Surat Basin �elds
Mineral sands
Bowen Basin �elds
Coal-bearing region
Oil Oil non-operational Gas Gas proposed
Coal seam gas
(including under construction)
(including under construction)
(including under construction)
Oil �elds Gas �elds Oil and Gas �elds
LNG
Neoproterozoic fold belt (Anakie Inlier)
Early Paleozoic Georgina Basin
Mid Paleozoic Drummond Basin
Mesozoic and Cenozoic basins
Middle Proterozoic fold belts
Paleozoic fold belt
Late Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic basins
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ResourceCeased production/ care and maintenance
Ceased production/ care and maintenance
Ceased production/ care and maintenance
Ceased production/ care and maintenance
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Seventeenth Edition, updated Aug 2017Prepared by Spatial and Graphic Services, Geological Survey of Queensland© The State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources and Mines) 2017
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Queensland's mineral, coal andpetroleum operations and resources
Coal Loading. Photo: DNRM
Photo: BananaStock.
Mount Carlton silver gold mine processing plant Photo: DNRM.
Rough opal from the Harlequin opal open-cut mine. Photo: DNRM.
Photo: DNRM.
Bauxite processing. Photo: Photodisc.
Precious gemstones from the north Queensland gemfields.
Photo: DNRM.