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The Hail Creek Coal Mine is a coal mine located within the Bowen Basin at Hail Creek in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 970 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 5.5 million tonnes of coal. In 2011, seven million tonnes of coal were produced.〔 The mine is operated by Rio Tinto Coal Australia and owned by Queensland Coal, Nippon Steel Australia, Marubeni Coal and Sumisho Coal Development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hail Creek Mine (QLD) )〕 Resources at the site were originally discovered in 1968.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rio Tinto Coal Australia )〕 Construction of the Hail Creek mine began in 2001.〔 Production at the open-cut mine began in 2003. Extraction is done by the dragline, truck and shovel method.〔 Two seams are mined. These are the Elphinstone Seam, average thickness of 6.4 metres and Hynds Seam, averaging 8.3 metres in thickness.〔 Operators of the mine are planning for future development of the site to include open-cut mining to the north and east of existing operations as well as underground mining.〔 Coal is exported via the Goonyella railway line. In early 2011, production was halted ahead of Cyclone Yasi. As a result of severe monsoon rain force majeure was declared and not lifted at Hail Creek until May 2011. In February 2013, the operators of the mine were fined $2,200 for a breach of environmental guidelines when it released water from the mine. The relatively low penalty was criticised as a slap on the wrist.〔 ==See also== *Coal mining in Australia *List of mines in Australia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hail Creek coal mine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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