Kestrel Coal Resources is itself a joint venture between EMR Capital (52%) and Indonesia's Adaro Energy(48%).

[3][5] Also in 2018, Mitsui declined EMR's $US560 million offer for their 20% share in the Kestrel Joint Venture.

[3] Coal is then transported by the Blackwater railway system to the Port of Gladstone for export.

Customers are located throughout Asia and Europe, as well as Brazil, with the largest single market being India.

[3][7] The mine was the subject of a long-running workers' strike from October 1997 to August 1999, commemorated in the heritage-listed Lilyvale Stand Monument.