Carmichael mine delivers on its promises to regional Queensland

Mr Crowe said the business’ focus was now on continuing to export coal to meet growing global demand for thermal coal for energy, particularly in India and Southeast Asia. Contact: media@ bravus.com.au +61 438031780 2 export infrastructure and those tonnes railed to the port for export during the first year of mining operations.

Data from the World Coal Association shows 151GW of new coal-fired power is under construction in 16 countries and due to come online by 2026.

All of the coal was safely transported from the mine to the North Queensland Export Terminal, north of Bowen, by the Bowen Rail Company using trains running on the 200-kilometre Carmichael Rail Network that connects the Galilee Basin to the Newlands Rail System into the Port of Abbot Point.

Bowen Rail Company, also a Bravus Australia company, was established in 2020 and now employs more than 150 people in the local Bowen community to run, support, and maintain its locomotives and rollingstock.

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“It also shows clear delivery on the commitments we’ve made, particularly to people in north and central Queensland, and just how much the coal industry can contribute when the job is done well.

“We said at the outset of the Carmichael mine and rail Project that we’d deliver more than 1,500 direct jobs during the construction and testing and commissioning period.

“We well and truly exceeded that with more than 2,600 people employed at the peak of construction and more than A$2 billion paid to regional Queensland contractors and businesses.

151GW is more than double all existing capacity in the Australian energy market.

“There’s no question that Australian coal will play a role, alongside renewables, as part of the global energy mix that delivers reliable and affordable power with reduced emissions intensity,” Mr Crowe said.

“Our advantage is we have all of our key Federal and State approvals in place, and we have the low-cost, high-quality reserves to be mining profitably through the price cycles for decades to come.

The first 10 million tonnes of high-quality thermal coal from the Carmichael mine near Clermont in central Queensland have been mined and railed for export to nations overseas as planned.

The milestone covers the shipments sent during testing

Data on thermal coal from the World Coal Association and the International Energy Agency

• There is 2184GW of operational coal-fired power around the world.

• At the end of 2022, there was 151GW of new coal-fired power under construction across 16 countries. This generation is due to come online by 2026.

• Global coal consumption was forecast to rise by 1.2 per cent in 2022 to reach an all-time high of 8GT (ie 8 billion tonnes).

• Coal is still the world’s largest single source of electricity at more than 37 per cent of all generation.

• Coal will still be 22 per cent of global generation in 2040, while taking a larger share of the load in emerging markets (39 per cent of generation in Southeast Asia in 2040).

• 1.7 billion people gained access to electricity for the first time between 1990 and 2010. Of these, around 93 per cent did so through coal.

Chief Operating Officer Mick Crowe said the 10 million tonnes railed milestone was an achievement shared by the tens of thousands of people who had so passionately supported the business over the years of obtaining its comprehensive approvals and building the mine and railway.

“This is a terrific milestone for our team, our contracting partners, and supporters of our

“That investment in jobs and contracts has flowed on in production and today we have more than 750 people working at Carmichael at any one time, with another third of that number on their operations swing.

“Importantly the bulk of these people live in a regional city or town named Townsville, or Rockhampton, or Clermont, or Charters Towers or Mackay, and that’s something we’re very proud of.”