The Collinsville Coal Mine is a coal mine located in Springlands and Collinsville in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. The open-cut mine lies in the northern Bowen Basin.[1] Collinsville produces coking and steaming coal for both domestic use and export. Exports leave the country via Abbot Point.[1]
The mine has coal reserves amounting to 196 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. Collinsville has an annual production capacity of 6 million tonnes of coal.[2]
History
Mining began at the site in 1919.[1] Because it is close to the Port of Townsville where American coal-fired warships were based during