{"id":683,"date":"2016-05-19T20:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?page_id=683"},"modified":"2016-05-19T20:49:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:49:12","slug":"the-bowen-basin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?page_id=683","title":{"rendered":"The Bowen Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ga.gov.au\/scientific-topics\/energy\/province-sedimentary-basin-geology\/petroleum\/onshore-australia\/bowen-basin\" target=\"_blank\">Bowen Basin<\/a> contains the largest coal reserve in Australia and\u00a0extends over approximately 60,000 square kilometres of Central Queensland &#8211; from the town of Collinsville in the north to Theodore in the south. \u00a0The basin continues beneath the younger Surat Basin and links up with the Gunnedah and Sydney Basins in New South Wales. \u00a0\u00a0This major coal producing region contains one of the world&#8217;s largest deposits of bituminous coal. \u00a0The Bowen Basin contains much of the known Permian coal resources in Queensland including virtually all of the known mineable prime coking coal.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, The Department of Natural Resources and Mines reported that the Bowen Basin contained\u00a042 operational coal mines which extracted over 150 million tonnes annually. \u00a0This represents a significan contribution to the\u00a0State of Queensland\u2019s coal production &#8211; its most important export commodity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnrm.qld.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0011\/238079\/coal.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-687\" src=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bowen-Basin-Coal-Mines.png\" alt=\"Bowen-Basin-Coal-Mines\" width=\"700\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bowen-Basin-Coal-Mines.png 544w, http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bowen-Basin-Coal-Mines-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bowen Basin contains the largest coal reserve in Australia and\u00a0extends over approximately 60,000 square kilometres of Central Queensland &#8211; from the town of Collinsville in the north to Theodore in the south. \u00a0The basin continues beneath the younger Surat Basin and links up with the Gunnedah and Sydney Basins in New South Wales. \u00a0\u00a0This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?page_id=683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bowen Basin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1604,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-683","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}