The Hail Creek Coal Mine is a coal mine located within the Bowen Basin at Hail Creek in the Isaac Region, Central Queensland, Australia.
The mine has an annual production capacity of 5.5 million tonnes of coal.
[5] As a result of severe monsoon rain force majeure was declared and not lifted at Hail Creek until May 2011.
[7] Glencore began operational management of Hail Creek mine from 1 August 2018 after the completion of a deal that saw Glencore acquire Rio Tinto’s 82% interest in the Hail Creek coal mine and adjacent coal resources, as well as its 71.2% interest in the Valeria coal resource.
The team having conducted the research suggested a large underreporting in the national inventory.