Bowen Consolidated Colliery is a heritage-listed former mine at Station Street and Second Avenue, Scottville, Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.

1 Underground Mine at the Bowen Consolidated Colliery continued production until the end of 1962 by which time it had been superseded by the nearby fully mechanised No.

[1] Intensive exploration of the Bowen Basin coalfield began only after the crisis in the base metals industry due to falling prices from 1907.

However, the election of Queensland's first stable Labor government led in August 1915 to Cabinet refusing the private applications and reserving the 6.4 square kilometre area involved for State operations.

At the same time, by the end of 1919, a further nineteen leases had been forfeited to the State for non-payment of rent, and the surviving syndicates had amalgamated to form the Bowen Consolidated Coal Mining Company.

[1] When the shares in the Company were released onto the market they failed to attract as much interest as had been anticipated, likely due to the rail link being some years away.

Twin tramways were laid down the tunnels and serviced by a stationary steam hauling engine, a compressed air water pump was installed at the foot of the tunnel and the ventilation was improved by sinking a vertical shaft to an extension of one of the cross-cuts and equipping it with a double-inlet sirocco-type fan.

This type of headframe, where the weight is evenly balanced on all four legs is an old pattern that was superseded by the American A-frame construction in the interwar period.

[1] Bowen Consolidated Coal Mines Limited developed its own township 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from Collinsville and the State Colliery and named it Scotsdale as a tribute to two of the directors of the old Bowen Coal and Coke Company Limited, Adam Hall Scott and John Dinsdale, but the name was changed to Scottville after objections from the postal department.

The nearby town of Collinsville at this time had a population of around 800 and comprised a school, shops, police station, hotel, picture theatre, dance hall, bowling green and the early construction of a hospital.

By this time the underground section of the mine had electric lighting as did all surface buildings and a new Ingersoll Rand Compressor, to work the dip pump and the jack hammer machines, had been purchased to replace the old second-hand one.

The 1947 Bowen Harbour Board Annual Report noted that an "electric generating set" was installed during that year; this may have been the extant power house.

[1] By this time, commercial exploitation of coking coal in the Bowen Basin for the export market was commencing on a massive scale to supply the booming Japanese steel industry.

[1] The tapered steel-framed, four-legged headframe is the tallest structure on the site, sitting on foundations about 15 metres (49 ft) square in plan.

It has the appearance of an open, narrow timber-framed tower rising to the third tier of the headframe at the top of which is a timber platform surrounded by a steel railing.

[1] At the lowest tier, and contained within the legs of the headframe, a structure with a corrugated iron gabled roof is located on the timber platform.

[1] A Ruston Hornsby Grantham England two-cylinder steam winding engine is situated immediately adjacent to the west of the headframe.

[1] The eastern part of the structure is constructed of concrete blocks and has a gable roof with a timber frame and corrugated iron cladding.

The plant inside the power house includes two British Thompson Houston Rugby generators, and three Bellis and Morcom diesel engines.

It is a lowset, rendered cavity brick structure with a corrugated iron gabled roof and small, high level, rectangular windows.

It is a single storey timber house, about 16 metres (52 ft) square in plan, raised on short stumps with a hipped roof clad in corrugated iron sheeting.

A stair, running parallel to the elevation, rises to a timber landing covered by a corrugated iron skillion roof.

The side elevations consist of rendered brick or concrete walls to a height of about 1 metre (3 ft 3 in), with corrugated iron cladding above this.

The tramline remains connect the Number One shaft under the headframe with the workshops and stores site, boiler house, and sawmill.

A corrugated iron water tank is situated approximately 10 metres (33 ft) to the west of the Number Two Shaft Fan House.

A group of three buildings designated as single men's quarters are situated approximately 30 metres (98 ft) south-east of the mine office.

Underground mines like the Bowen Consolidated Colliery became less common during the 1960s following the introduction of large-scale open cut methods.

The Bowen colliery is uncommon for its relatively high level of intactness and as a collection of 1920s coal mining technology.

This type of headframe, where the weight is evenly balanced on all four legs is an old pattern that was superseded by the American A-frame construction in the interwar period.

[1] The Colliery complex has the potential to answer a range of other archaeological research questions including but not limited to the creation, selection, use and rejection of coal mining technologies, the ethnic and industrial background of mine workers and its influence on operations and organisation, and the impact of technologies and industries on the environment.