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Location: 30 km S from Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Nobby Smith WayNanangoQueensland, Australia4615
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Meandu Coal Mine is located in the late Triassic Age (~200-220 Ma) Tarong Basin approximately 200 km north west of Brisbane, Queensland. A thermal product coal is produced from three main seams in the Tarong Beds to supply Stanwell Corporation’s Tarong Power Station (TPS) (Simmons, Edwards and Ferdinands, 2013). The Tarong Beds coal measures consist of thick coal seams which are interlayered with fine grained clay, quartz-rich or iron-rich stone bands of variable thickness within a sedimentary package of conglomerates, sandstones, siltstones and mudstone. Pegrem (1995) previously classified the coal from the Tarong Beds as high ash, low volatile, low sulphur steaming coal with weak coking properties. There are three main seams being mined at Meandu Mine, namely Ace, King and Queen. The seams increase in ash content with stratigraphic depth (Young, 2013). As the coal at Meandu Mine is not able to be easily “free dug” it is blasted in order for it to be mined.
