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Daunia Mine

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Summary

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (metallurgical)
  • Coal (coking)
  • Coal (thermal)
  • Coal (PCI)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotDaunia is one of nine metallurgical coal mines in Queensland’s Bowen Basin.

The mine produces hard coking coal and pulverised coal injection metallurgical coal product. Daunia’s coal products are exported to customers across Asia through the Hay Point Coal Terminal or Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal near Mackay.

Daunia is adjacent to Whitehaven’s Winchester South development project, which will provide opportunities for future synergies including potential integration of operations.

The mine is operating in fully autonomous mode.

In 2025, Daunia achieves its strongest result in 5 years, largely reflecting productivity improvements in the Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) operating model.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Whitehaven Coal Ltd. 100 % Indirect
On 2 April 2024, Whitehaven Coal acquired 100% of Daunia coal mine and all the shares in South Blackwater Coal Pty Ltd from BHP Group and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd, together BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA).

Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

Bituminous coal is mined from the Permian Moranbah and Rangal Coal measures. Products range from premium quality, low volatile, high vitrinite, hard coking coal to medium volatile hard coking coal, to weak coking coal, some pulverised coal injection (PCI) coal and medium ash thermal coal as a secondary product.

Resources occur in the Rangal Coal Measures of Late Permian age, in a graben-like structurally deforme basin. Dips in the coal measures are variable and range from 5–30°. Two seams are present: Leichhardt — 5.1m average thickness; Vermont — 2.8m average thickness.

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Mining Methods

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Heavy Mobile Equipment

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EV - Electric
AV - Autonomous

Comminution

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Processing

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Commodity Production

CommodityUnits20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Coal (coking) t  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe
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Coal (metallurgical & thermal) kt  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe
Coal (metallurgical) kt  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe4,3565,1125,1205,2484,766
All production numbers are expressed as clean coal.

Operational metrics

Metrics2025202420232022202120202019201820172016
Coal tonnes mined  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe5,451,899 t6,093,670 t5,990,593 t6,060,224 t
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Tonnes processed  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe  ....  Subscribe5,521,247 t6,066,997 t5,964,022 t6,159,010 t

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Personnel

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