Data as at 12 November 2026 · from Queensland Government mining tenure registers
Queensland mining lease
ML 1772 · SOUTH BLACKWATER MINE
ML 1772 (SOUTH BLACKWATER MINE) is a Queensland mining lease held by WHITEHAVEN BLACKWATER PTY LTD (Whitehaven Coal group). Status granted, granted 25 March 1976, expires 31 August 2033. 78 ha in the Bowen Basin area. Environmental authority EPML00717813.
- Type
- Mining lease
Coal or oil shale - Status
- Granted
- Parent group
- Whitehaven Coal
- Project or name
- SOUTH BLACKWATER MINE
- Purpose
- tailings or settling dam (TAILDM), water management (WTRMAN)
- Lodged
- 1 June 1971
- Granted
- 25 March 1976
- Expires
- 31 August 2033
- Area
- 77.65 hectares (0.8 km²)
- Region
- Bowen Basin
- Native title
- Granted before 1 January 1994
- Previous references
- ML198CLER
- Environmental authority
- EPML00717813 Granted
- Location
- -23.94072, 148.80601 (centre)
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