Queensland Coal Statistics — Mining Capital Funds

Name: Queensland Coal Production and Export Statistics
Creator: Mining Capital Funds
Published: 2026-08-22
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Queensland Coal Ledger

Saleable output · 2026 Q260.9Mt5.4% on 2025 Q2

Rolling 12 months230Mt3.1% year on year

Metallurgical share60%Coking and PCI as a share of the quarter’s saleable tonnes

Export value · 12 months43.1A$bon 206 Mt shipped

Export share

Sales, not production — the two differ by whatever moves on and off the stockpiles.

About 89% of it is sold overseas

Over the 12 months to 2026 Q2 Queensland sold 232 million tonnes of coal. 206 million went onto ships and 26.2 million stayed in Australia.

Export sales against domestic sales

million tonnes per quarter

Export and domestic coal sales, million tonnes
Quarter	Export	Domestic	Total	Domestic share
2026 Q2	54.7	6.3	61.0	10.4%
2026 Q1	44.5	6.7	51.1	13.1%
2025 Q4	54.3	6.5	60.8	10.7%
2025 Q3	52.7	6.7	59.3	11.2%
2025 Q2	50.3	6.5	56.8	11.4%
2025 Q1	42.9	6.4	49.3	13.0%
2024 Q4	54.0	6.6	60.6	10.8%
2024 Q3	51.3	6.4	57.7	11.1%
2024 Q2	51.7	6.7	58.4	11.5%
2024 Q1	47.5	6.7	54.2	12.4%
2023 Q4	51.9	6.3	58.2	10.8%
2023 Q3	49.1	6.8	55.9	12.2%
2023 Q2	53.8	7.0	60.8	11.5%
2023 Q1	45.1	7.0	52.1	13.4%
2022 Q4	49.9	7.1	57.0	12.4%
2022 Q3	47.3	6.8	54.1	12.6%
2022 Q2	49.8	6.0	55.8	10.7%
2022 Q1	46.5	6.3	52.7	11.9%

Who uses the coal that stays

million tonnes, rolling 12 months

Domestic coal sales by industry, 12 months to 2026 Q2
Industry	Tonnes (Mt)	Share
Electricity Generation	21.1	80.6%
Coal Mining	2.7	10.4%
Other	1.3	4.9%
Primary Metal and Metal Product Manufacturing	1.1	4.2%

Net output

Saleable coal — washed product plus other saleable product, as reported to the department.

The state produces a quarter of a billion tonnes a year, and the mix is drifting

Output has been broadly flat since the 2019 peak, but the split between coking coal for steelmaking and thermal coal for power has kept moving — and the wet season carves a visible notch out of every March quarter.

Saleable coal production by quarter

million tonnes

From 2022 the department reports PCI (pulverised coal for injection) as its own category; before that it sat inside coking coal. The step at the marked quarter is a change in classification, not in mining.

Saleable coal production, million tonnes
Quarter	Coking	PCI	Thermal	Total
2026 Q2	27.2	9.8	23.9	60.9
2026 Q1	20.7	8.3	19.6	48.6
2025 Q4	25.3	10.3	24.4	60.0
2025 Q3	25.5	9.9	24.9	60.3
2025 Q2	25.8	9.1	22.8	57.7
2025 Q1	22.1	8.1	19.7	49.9
2024 Q4	23.4	9.2	24.1	56.6
2024 Q3	27.6	8.7	22.1	58.4
2024 Q2	28.8	7.9	22.5	59.2
2024 Q1	23.6	7.9	20.5	51.9
2023 Q4	25.0	9.4	22.4	56.8
2023 Q3	23.6	9.1	23.2	55.9
2023 Q2	27.3	7.9	23.0	58.1
2023 Q1	26.1	6.9	19.6	52.6
2022 Q4	26.7	8.6	20.9	56.1
2022 Q3	27.5	8.1	20.4	56.0
2022 Q2	25.1	8.0	21.3	54.3
2022 Q1	26.8	7.8	20.3	54.9
2021 Q4	33.4	0.0	19.1	52.5
2021 Q3	34.9	0.0	21.8	56.7
2021 Q2	38.9	0.0	18.6	57.5
2021 Q1	35.6	0.0	18.5	54.1
2020 Q4	37.7	0.0	18.4	56.1
2020 Q3	36.2	0.0	17.0	53.2
2020 Q2	37.3	0.0	21.6	58.9
2020 Q1	34.5	0.0	21.9	56.4
2019 Q4	43.2	0.0	21.3	64.4
2019 Q3	37.9	0.0	22.1	60.1
2019 Q2	43.1	0.0	22.6	65.7
2019 Q1	36.0	0.0	22.7	58.6
2018 Q4	38.3	0.0	23.0	61.3
2018 Q3	38.4	0.0	25.1	63.5
2018 Q2	41.8	0.0	22.7	64.5
2018 Q1	37.9	0.0	21.6	59.6
2017 Q4	38.7	0.0	22.8	61.5
2017 Q3	41.4	0.0	22.2	63.6
2017 Q2	32.9	0.0	19.4	52.4
2017 Q1	39.2	0.0	20.1	59.3
2016 Q4	42.0	0.0	21.5	63.6
2016 Q3	40.4	0.0	21.7	62.1
2016 Q2	41.2	0.0	20.1	61.3
2016 Q1	36.4	0.0	20.2	56.7
2015 Q4	39.8	0.0	20.2	60.1
2015 Q3	41.2	0.0	20.8	62.0
2015 Q2	42.3	0.0	20.2	62.4
2015 Q1	38.4	0.0	18.5	56.8
2014 Q4	41.9	0.0	19.0	60.9
2014 Q3	41.0	0.0	20.6	61.6
2014 Q2	39.0	0.0	19.1	58.1
2014 Q1	37.8	0.0	17.1	54.9
2013 Q4	39.3	0.0	17.6	56.8
2013 Q3	36.4	0.0	20.4	56.8
2013 Q2	35.2	0.0	19.6	54.9
2013 Q1	31.5	0.0	14.7	46.1
2012 Q4	33.3	0.0	19.0	52.3
2012 Q3	31.2	0.0	18.6	49.8
2012 Q2	29.7	0.0	17.1	46.8
2012 Q1	26.0	0.0	16.3	42.3
2011 Q4	31.3	0.0	17.8	49.1
2011 Q3	30.0	0.0	17.9	47.9
2011 Q2	26.4	0.0	18.1	44.5
2011 Q1	21.2	0.0	14.6	35.7
2010 Q4	27.5	0.0	18.4	45.9
2010 Q3	33.6	0.0	20.0	53.6
2010 Q2	34.2	0.0	21.0	55.2
2010 Q1	29.8	0.0	17.5	47.3

Overburden

Bank cubic metres of rock moved to reach the seam — the work that precedes the coal.

Flat production, more dirt moved

Queensland shifts well over two billion cubic metres of overburden a year. Divided by raw coal won, it gives the state's effective strip ratio — a blunt read on how much harder the pits are becoming to mine.

Overburden removed, and cubic metres per tonne of raw coal

million bcm · bcm per tonne

Two measures on two separate scales, stacked rather than overlaid on a shared axis. Strip ratio here is total overburden divided by total gross raw output for the same quarter, open cut and underground combined.

Overburden and strip ratio by quarter
Quarter	Overburden (M bcm)	Raw coal (Mt)	Strip ratio (bcm/t)
2026 Q2	590	84.3	6.99
2026 Q1	474	65.4	7.26
2025 Q4	609	81.6	7.46
2025 Q3	615	83.8	7.35
2025 Q2	553	81.2	6.82
2025 Q1	473	65.6	7.21
2024 Q4	546	74.4	7.34
2024 Q3	588	79.4	7.40
2024 Q2	572	80.2	7.13
2024 Q1	502	68.9	7.29
2023 Q4	504	76.0	6.62
2023 Q3	572	73.4	7.79
2023 Q2	597	77.8	7.68
2023 Q1	458	69.4	6.60
2022 Q4	491	74.6	6.58
2022 Q3	513	74.7	6.86
2022 Q2	483	69.5	6.95
2022 Q1	500	71.6	6.98
2021 Q4	454	65.7	6.91
2021 Q3	528	70.4	7.50
2021 Q2	500	76.4	6.55
2021 Q1	457	70.4	6.49
2020 Q4	489	75.6	6.48
2020 Q3	525	73.3	7.16
2020 Q2	519	75.0	6.92
2020 Q1	464	68.9	6.73
2019 Q4	534	85.1	6.27
2019 Q3	543	77.4	7.02
2019 Q2	530	86.8	6.11
2019 Q1	480	72.6	6.61
2018 Q4	485	76.3	6.36
2018 Q3	514	80.6	6.38
2018 Q2	514	84.5	6.09
2018 Q1	473	73.5	6.43
2017 Q4	458	78.0	5.87
2017 Q3	532	83.4	6.38
2017 Q2	505	69.4	7.28
2017 Q1	453	74.0	6.12
2016 Q4	482	80.7	5.97
2016 Q3	488	81.2	6.01
2016 Q2	508	81.7	6.22
2016 Q1	444	69.5	6.39
2015 Q4	477	78.5	6.08
2015 Q3	513	79.1	6.48
2015 Q2	516	81.4	6.34
2015 Q1	435	72.4	6.01
2014 Q4	483	76.6	6.31
2014 Q3	530	77.4	6.84
2014 Q2	535	79.8	6.70
2014 Q1	477	67.7	7.04
2013 Q4	484	71.0	6.83
2013 Q3	545	73.1	7.45
2013 Q2	455	72.6	6.26
2013 Q1	474	60.2	7.87
2012 Q4	511	71.3	7.17
2012 Q3	491	68.3	7.19
2012 Q2	427	63.3	6.74
2012 Q1	386	52.8	7.32
2011 Q4	401	66.3	6.05
2011 Q3	456	64.8	7.04
2011 Q2	390	61.0	6.39
2011 Q1	333	47.0	7.08
2010 Q4	332	55.3	6.00
2010 Q3	406	70.2	5.79
2010 Q2	422	70.5	5.99
2010 Q1	334	60.1	5.55

Destinations

Export tonnes and sale value by country, as declared on quarterly returns.

India and Japan buy the most; the map keeps redrawing itself

Around 200 million tonnes leaves Queensland each year, worth roughly forty billion dollars. The customer list has changed more than the total: China's share collapsed after 2020 and has since partly returned, while India and South-East Asia have grown.

Exports by destination

million tonnes

Period

Exports by destination, the 12 months to 2026 Q2
Destination	Tonnes (Mt)	Value	Implied A$/t
Japan	40.4	A$8,593m	213
India	38.7	A$10,024m	259
China	34.5	A$5,654m	164
South Korea	32.3	A$6,173m	191
Vietnam	16.2	A$2,778m	172
Netherlands	8.0	A$1,918m	241
Taiwan	7.6	A$1,848m	243
Brazil	4.9	A$1,097m	226
Hong Kong	4.4	A$580m	132
Indonesia	3.7	A$863m	232
France	2.5	A$632m	249
Other	2.5	A$567m	228
Germany	2.3	A$578m	247
Singapore	2.0	A$356m	180
Turkey	1.4	A$372m	267
Malaysia	1.1	A$186m	176
Sweden	1.0	A$284m	277
Spain	1.0	A$254m	251
Belgium	0.8	A$225m	268
Switzerland	0.6	A$82m	128
United Kingdom	0.1	A$23m	289

Share of export tonnes by buyer

rolling 12 months

The six largest buyers over the whole period, everyone else grouped. Each point is the preceding four quarters, which removes the wet-season sawtooth and makes the shifts in share readable.

Export tonnes by buyer, 12 months to 2026 Q2
Buyer	Tonnes (Mt)	Share
Japan	40.4	19.6%
India	38.7	18.8%
China	34.5	16.7%
South Korea	32.3	15.7%
Taiwan	7.6	3.7%
Singapore	2.0	1.0%

Ports

Where the coal actually crosses the wharf.

Four terminals carry almost all of it

Gladstone and Dalrymple Bay handle the bulk, with Hay Point and Abbot Point close behind. Brisbane is a rounding error by comparison, and the coal type each terminal ships says a lot about the basin behind it.

Export tonnes by port

million tonnes per quarter

Export tonnes by port, the 12 months to 2026 Q2
Port	Tonnes (Mt)	Share
Gladstone Port	67.6	32.8%
Dalrymple Bay	59.0	28.7%
Hay Point	37.3	18.1%
Abbot Point	35.9	17.4%
Port of Brisbane	6.0	2.9%
Unspecified	0.2	0.1%

What each terminal ships

share of tonnes, rolling 12 months

Coal grade mix by terminal, 12 months to 2026 Q2, million tonnes
Terminal	Hard Coking Coal	PCI	Semi-Soft Coking Coal	Thermal Coal	Total
Gladstone Port	21.1	14.3	7.0	25.2	67.6
Dalrymple Bay	23.9	15.9	1.3	18.0	59.0
Hay Point	36.2	—	—	1.1	37.3
Abbot Point	8.3	6.5	1.1	20.1	35.9
Port of Brisbane	—	—	—	6.0	6.0
Unspecified	0.1	—	—	0.1	0.2

Mines

Individual operations, financial year. Published annually, so this series runs a year behind the quarterly tables.

52 mines reported saleable production in FY2026

Together they produced 229.6 million tonnes. The largest ten account for 46% of that.

Saleable production by mine

million tonnes

MineMtvs prior

Rolleston MineOpen Cut · mostly thermal

14.1

22.0%

Goonyella Riverside And Broadmeadow Mine - Open CutOpen Cut · mostly coking

12.5

7.1%

Carmichael Coal MineOpen Cut · mostly thermal

11.6

-7.4%

Blackwater MineOpen Cut · mostly coking

11.1

0.8%

Curragh - OpencutOpen Cut · mostly thermal

10.9

14.7%

Clermont Open CutOpen Cut · mostly thermal

9.6

-15.6%

Caval RidgeOpen Cut · mostly coking

9.6

13.7%

Callide MineOpen Cut · mostly thermal

9.4

-5.3%

Lake VermontOpen Cut · mostly coking

8.7

1.3%

Hail Creek MineOpen Cut · mostly coking

8.2

3.9%

Saraji - Open CutOpen Cut · mostly coking

7.9

-3.0%

Peak DownsOpen Cut · mostly coking

7.3

-6.5%

Saleable production by mine, million tonnes
Mine	Type	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024	FY2025	FY2026
Rolleston Mine	Open Cut	12.0	13.7	13.2	12.5	11.6	14.1
Goonyella Riverside And Broadmeadow Mine - Open Cut	Open Cut	18.9	16.7	16.6	12.9	11.7	12.5
Carmichael Coal Mine	Open Cut	—	1.7	9.0	11.8	12.6	11.6
Blackwater Mine	Open Cut	12.4	11.7	10.1	10.1	11.0	11.1
Curragh - Opencut	Open Cut	12.2	10.4	9.7	10.2	9.5	10.9
Clermont Open Cut	Open Cut	7.5	10.9	9.3	11.4	11.4	9.6
Caval Ridge	Open Cut	7.8	9.2	9.4	8.1	8.4	9.6
Callide Mine	Open Cut	8.5	7.6	7.1	9.3	10.0	9.4
Lake Vermont	Open Cut	8.0	9.2	8.7	9.1	8.6	8.7
Hail Creek Mine	Open Cut	5.7	7.8	7.6	7.9	7.9	8.2
Saraji - Open Cut	Open Cut	9.0	9.2	9.2	6.6	8.1	7.9
Peak Downs	Open Cut	11.8	8.5	8.8	6.8	7.8	7.3
South Walker Creek	Open Cut	4.9	6.3	6.1	6.3	6.1	6.7
Kestrel Mine	Underground	5.3	5.9	4.8	5.1	4.1	6.3
Jellinbah Mine	Open Cut	5.2	4.4	3.8	5.3	6.0	6.3
Dawson North And Central Mine	Open Cut	7.0	4.5	7.0	6.4	7.4	6.0
Poitrel Mine	Open Cut	3.5	3.7	3.6	4.4	5.0	5.0
Meandu Mine - Open Cut	Open Cut	5.0	5.2	6.1	5.3	5.0	4.9
Daunia	Open Cut	3.9	3.0	4.0	4.1	4.6	4.7
Ensham Mine - Open Cut	Open Cut	4.1	3.9	2.9	3.4	3.8	4.4
Olive Downs	Open Cut	—	—	—	1.0	3.5	4.1
Oaky Creek Mine - Underground	Underground	3.9	3.7	3.6	4.1	3.7	4.0
Byerwen Coal Mine	Open Cut	5.2	4.0	3.6	4.5	3.3	3.5
New Acland	Open Cut	1.8	0.5	—	0.9	2.6	3.5
Capcoal Complex - Open Cut	Open Cut	3.6	2.6	3.3	3.0	3.7	3.4
Capcoal Complex - Underground	Underground	5.3	4.0	2.4	3.2	3.3	3.3
Commodore Coal Mine - Open Cut	Open Cut	3.5	3.5	3.3	3.3	2.8	3.1
Coppabella Open Cut Coal Mine	Open Cut	2.4	2.9	2.5	2.7	2.1	3.0
Foxleigh Coal Mine	Open Cut	2.4	2.5	2.5	2.6	2.1	3.0
Cameby Downs - Open Cut	Open Cut	2.0	2.0	2.2	2.6	2.8	2.6
Middlemount Coal Mine	Open Cut	3.5	3.3	2.2	2.2	2.5	2.6
Yarrabee Mine	Open Cut	2.7	2.4	2.0	1.8	2.6	2.6
Northern Hub - Drake - Open Cut	Open Cut	2.9	3.3	3.3	3.1	2.8	2.4
Kogan Creek	Open Cut	2.4	2.6	2.1	2.5	2.2	2.2
Collinsville - Open Cut	Open Cut	1.7	2.4	2.2	2.7	2.1	2.2
Isaac Plains Complex	Open Cut	1.9	2.4	2.9	2.5	2.5	2.2
Ironbark No.1	Underground	—	—	0.1	0.2	0.5	2.0
Baralaba North Mine	Open Cut	1.3	1.5	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.6
Moorvale South	Open Cut	—	—	—	0.9	2.0	1.5
Blair Athol	Open Cut	2.2	2.2	1.9	1.5	1.5	1.5
Meteor Downs South Mine	Open Cut	1.4	1.4	1.5	1.3	1.4	1.4
New Burton Mine	Open Cut	—	—	—	0.7	1.7	1.3
Northern Hub - Jax - Open Cut	Open Cut	1.2	1.5	1.5	1.9	1.7	1.2
Carborough Downs	Underground	3.6	2.2	2.3	1.4	0.8	1.2
Gregory Crinum Mine - Open Cut	Open Cut	2.1	1.8	1.4	1.6	1.3	1.1
Moranbah North Mine	Underground	4.4	3.3	5.0	3.5	2.2	1.1
Vulcan Mine	Open Cut	—	0.7	1.2	1.4	1.2	0.9
Centurion Coal Mine	Underground	—	—	—	—	0.4	0.7
Broadlea	Open Cut	—	0.2	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.6
Fairhill Coal Mine	Open Cut	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
Cook Colliery Coal Mine	Underground	—	0.0	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1
Broadmeadow East	Open Cut	—	—	0.6	1.1	0.1	0.0

Value

An estimate, and the only modelled figure on this page. Everything else is the department’s own numbers.

Tonnes are not dollars: Rolleston mines the most coal, Goonyella Riverside earns the most

Priced at Queensland's average export value for each type of coal in FY2026, the output of the state's 52 producing coal mines is worth an estimated A$44.7 billion. Tonnes and dollars rank the mines differently, because coking coal averaged A$272 a tonne against A$117 for thermal. Rolleston produced the most coal, 14.1 million tonnes of mostly thermal coal, but ranks 9th by estimated value at about A$1.6 billion. Goonyella Riverside ranks first at about A$3.3 billion from 12.5 million tonnes, mostly coking coal.

Estimated value out of the ground by mine, FY2026

A$, estimate

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An estimate, not a reported figure. Each mine's saleable tonnes of coking, PCI and thermal coal come from the department's FY2026 mine table, multiplied by Queensland's average export unit value for that coal type across the same four quarters: coking A$272 a tonne (hard and semi-soft combined), PCI A$217, thermal A$117. Coal sold to neighbouring power stations (Callide, Meandu, Commodore, Kogan Creek) is assumed at A$55 a tonne. It ignores each mine's own coal quality, contract prices and stockpile movements, so read it as a comparison of scale, not as any company's revenue. Lease boundaries are granted coal mining leases from the Queensland Government; rail routes to port are indicative. Terminals follow operators' published arrangements; mines that use two are split so each terminal's total matches its reported exports. Satellite imagery: Esri.

Estimated value out of the ground by mine, FY2026 (estimate)
Mine	Main coal type	Saleable (Mt)	Est. value (A$m)	Implied A$/t	Rank by value	Rank by tonnes
Goonyella Riverside	coking	12.5	3,339	267	1	2
Blackwater	coking	11.1	2,923	263	2	4
Caval Ridge	coking	9.6	2,556	267	3	7
Curragh	thermal	10.9	2,145	198	4	5
Saraji	coking	7.9	2,111	267	5	11
Lake Vermont	coking	8.7	2,056	237	6	9
Peak Downs	coking	7.3	1,958	269	7	12
Hail Creek	coking	8.2	1,662	202	8	10
Rolleston	thermal	14.1	1,648	117	9	1
Kestrel	coking	6.3	1,498	237	10	14
South Walker Creek	PCI	6.7	1,451	217	11	13
Carmichael	thermal	11.6	1,356	117	12	3
Jellinbah	PCI	6.3	1,355	217	13	15
Dawson	coking	6.0	1,340	222	14	16
Poitrel	PCI	5.0	1,214	241	15	17
Daunia	coking	4.7	1,163	249	16	19
Clermont	thermal	9.6	1,118	117	17	6
Oaky Creek	coking	4.0	1,091	272	18	22
Olive Downs	coking	4.1	949	229	19	21
Capcoal (underground)	coking	3.3	886	272	20	26
Capcoal (open cut)	PCI	3.4	775	226	21	25
Byerwen	thermal	3.5	682	194	22	23
Coppabella	PCI	3.0	652	217	23	28
Foxleigh	PCI	3.0	651	217	24	29
Middlemount	PCI	2.6	612	236	25	31
Yarrabee	PCI	2.6	560	217	26	32
Isaac Plains	coking	2.2	546	247	27	36
Callide	thermal	9.4	520	55	28	8
Ensham	thermal	4.4	518	117	29	20
Ironbark No.1	coking	2.0	478	243	30	37
New Acland	thermal	3.5	402	117	31	24
Collinsville	thermal	2.2	347	156	32	35
Baralaba North	PCI	1.6	343	217	33	38
Moorvale South	PCI	1.5	327	213	34	39
Drake	thermal	2.4	314	133	35	33
Gregory Crinum	coking	1.1	312	272	36	45
Moranbah North	coking	1.1	311	272	37	46
Cameby Downs	thermal	2.6	304	117	38	30
Carborough Downs	coking	1.2	296	253	39	44
Burton	coking	1.3	271	203	40	42
Meandu	thermal	4.9	268	55	41	18
Vulcan	coking	0.9	219	254	42	47
Jax	thermal	1.2	213	171	43	43
Centurion	coking	0.7	184	272	44	48
Blair Athol	thermal	1.5	172	117	45	40
Commodore	thermal	3.1	171	55	46	27
Meteor Downs South	thermal	1.4	158	117	47	41
Kogan Creek	thermal	2.2	122	55	48	34
Broadlea	thermal	0.6	77	128	49	49
Fairhill	thermal	0.4	76	183	50	50
Cook Colliery	coking	0.1	31	243	51	51
Broadmeadow East	thermal	0.0	1	117	52	52

Questions

The figures above, stated plainly.

Common questions

How much coal does Queensland produce?

Queensland produced 229.6 million tonnes of saleable coal in the twelve months to June 2026, of which 60% was metallurgical coal and 40% thermal coal.

How much coal does Queensland export?

Queensland exported 206.1 million tonnes of coal in the twelve months to June 2026, with a declared sales value of A$43.1 billion. That is 89% of all Queensland coal sold.

Who buys Queensland coal?

The largest destinations in the twelve months to June 2026 were Japan (40.4 million tonnes), India (38.7 million tonnes), China (34.5 million tonnes), South Korea (32.3 million tonnes), Vietnam (16.2 million tonnes).

What is the largest coal mine in Queensland?

Rolleston Mine was the largest by saleable production in FY2026 at 14.1 million tonnes. 52 mines reported production, producing 229.6 million tonnes in total.

Which ports export Queensland coal?

Queensland coal is exported through 5 terminals: Gladstone Port, Dalrymple Bay, Hay Point, Abbot Point, Port of Brisbane. Gladstone Port handled the most in the twelve months to June 2026 at 67.6 million tonnes.

How much Queensland coal is used domestically?

26.2 million tonnes, or 11.3% of coal sold, went to Australian domestic buyers in the twelve months to June 2026. The rest was exported.

How much overburden does Queensland move?

Queensland mines removed 2,289 million bank cubic metres of overburden in the twelve months to June 2026 to win 315.1 million tonnes of raw coal, an effective strip ratio of 7.3 cubic metres per tonne.

Method

Where this comes from, and what it can't tell you

Source. Every figure on this page is compiled from spreadsheets published on the Queensland Government Open Data Portal by the Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development. With one labelled exception, nothing here is modelled, estimated or adjusted — the numbers are aggregated from the department's own tables. The exception is the estimated value by mine, described below.

Release cadence. The department publishes quarterly, roughly two to three months after the quarter closes. This page is rebuilt from the source files rather than hand-updated, so it always reflects the most recent release — but it is not, and cannot be, a real-time feed of mine output.

Revisions. The department states that data may be revised as new and resubmitted returns arrive. The most recent quarter is the most likely to move.

Quarters are calendar quarters in the production and sales tables. The mine-level table is reported by financial year and is published annually, which is why it ends a year earlier than everything else.

Coal type definitions changed in 2022. PCI was previously reported inside the coking coal figure. Comparisons of coking coal across that boundary are not like-for-like; comparisons of total output are.

Export value is the declared sales value in Australian dollars on the quarterly returns. It is not a spot price and should not be read as one.

How Queensland sits nationally. Queensland is the larger of Australia's two coal states, ahead of New South Wales. For production by state, exports by grade and destination and export earnings back to 1990, see Australian coal production and export statistics. That page is built from the federal Resources and Energy Quarterly, whose Queensland figures are estimates and differ from the state returns used here.

Estimated value by mine. The value map is the one modelled figure on this page. It multiplies each mine’s reported saleable tonnes of each coal type by the state’s average export unit value for that type over the same financial year. It is labelled as an estimate wherever it appears and is kept out of the downloadable files and the dataset description, which carry only the department’s own figures.

Quarterly coal reports — production — Queensland Government Open Data Portal
Quarterly coal reports — sales — Queensland Government Open Data Portal
Coal industry review — production by mine — Queensland Government Open Data Portal

From the same team: the MCF Mining Index tracks every Queensland and Western Australian mining tenure, with what changed overnight, who holds it, approvals and rehabilitation costs.

See the MCF Mining Index