7,778 Queensland coal and minerals tenures, and the changes to them, tracked nightly
Every tenure and environmental authority with its holder, drilling, rehabilitation cost and approvals, a dated record of every change the registers don't keep, and what's coming up next.
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See what changed overnight, on the map
Each night the index compares Queensland's registers with the night before. Every application, grant, transfer, surrender, expiry and EA change is outlined on the map: click one to see what changed, then carry on through the list.
12345- The last 24 hours, 48 hours or 7 days, and the type of change
- Every change outlined on the map: granted, lodged, changed, or reduced and removed
- Click one to see what changed, then open the tenure
- Back to Changes, to carry on through the rest
- The same changes as a list, newest first, and searchable
111 changes in the week to 4 Oct 2026
Four of them, each mapped against the tenures around it, the way subscribers see them.
Mt Coolon Gold Mines
30,578 ha of all minerals ground at Mount Coolon, Whitsunday Region.
Minted Australia
Mining leases for gold at Morinish South, Rockhampton Region.
Mt. Dockerell Mining
Reduced by 5,418 ha at Duchess, Cloncurry Shire. Relinquishment is often required at renewal.
Auburn Resources
32,549 ha of all minerals at Lawn Hill, Burke Shire. Expires 24 Oct 2026; a renewal must be lodged before then.
What the index records that the registers don't
Queensland's registers show each tenure and environmental authority as it stands today. The index keeps a dated record of what changed: a permit cut back, transferred or surrendered, or an EA reissued with new conditions.
- Ground as it's releasedSurrendered, expired, refused or cut back, flagged the morning after. Released ground can't be applied for until a moratorium of at least two calendar months ends; new coal permits generally go to tender.
- Who's moving, and whereEvery application, grant, renewal and transfer, by company and parent group, building into a picture of who's expanding and who's pulling back.
- What changed in a permitWhen an EA is reissued, the conditions added and removed, side by side, not a new PDF to read from scratch.
- Expiries nobody renewedGranted tenures running out with no renewal lodged: the ground most likely to come free next.
The deadlines ahead, months before they fall due
Tenure renewals, rehabilitation cost reviews and information request responses each run to a deadline. See every one three, six or twelve months out, by region and commodity, with its holder and project. Holders and investors see what's falling due across their ground; consultants and advisers see where clients are likely to need support, early enough to plan for it.
12345- Three, six or twelve months ahead
- Renewals not yet lodged, rehabilitation cost reviews and information request responses due
- Every date into Outlook, Google or Apple Calendar
- Mapped, by region and commodity
- Each with its permit, holder and project
Every permit, its holder and its historic drilling, and every company's whole position
Who holds the ground next to yours, what a competitor applied for this month, which permits lapse in the next 90 days, what the drilling found, and what each company carries in rehabilitation cost.
1234Every permit, with its historic open-file drilling
- Historic drill holes on the permit, coloured by year or commodity
- The likely target, inferred from the drilling and reports where the permit names none
- Watch the tenure or its holder: changes are emailed the next morning
- Its environmental authority, rehabilitation cost, conditions and documents
1234Any miner's whole Queensland position, on one page
- Every tenure, hectare, application and EA the group holds, across all its companies
- What's expiring in the next 12 months, and whether renewals are in
- The estimated rehabilitation cost across every EA it holds
- Ground by commodity and by region, then its drilling and best assays
The ground through time, and everything around it
Step back through every satellite imagery release since 2014 to see when a pit opened or a site was cleared. Switch on railways, ports, power lines and quarries to see how ground connects to market, or narrow everything to one council.
Drag across: the Carmichael coal mine (ML 70441) in February 2014, before construction, and in September 2026. Past imagery is on every tenure in the index.
$12.7 billion of rehabilitation liability, site by site and owner by owner
The estimated rehabilitation cost (ERC) is the regulator's decision on what it would cost to rehabilitate each site, and it sets the financial provision the holder must give. The index has every current decision and its history, on the map, on each EA, and totalled for each company and group.
12345Who carries the liability, and where
- The regulator's estimate for every site, totalled
- The largest liabilities by owner group: click a bar for its sites
- The largest single sites
- By industry and by region
- Reviews due in the next 12 months, when a new decision is made
Every mining EA and PRC plan, searchable, with every change tracked
4,363 environmental authorities and their conditions, read from the permit documents, and 269 progressive rehabilitation and closure (PRC) plan applications with the regulator's information requests and the companies' replies, how long each took to approve, and every plan document the regulator has published, searchable page by page. Each night the index checks the register and records what changed.
Each PRC plan has its own page, linked both ways with its EA: its schedules, every application with its dates and documents, and what the regulator asked. Watch any EA and its changes are emailed the next morning.
Watch any area, company or tenure and get an email the morning after it changes
Draw a box on the map, pick a commodity if you like, and choose the kinds of change you want: every one inside it lands in your inbox the morning after, grouped so a busy week stays readable.
- An area you draw, with or without a commodity focus
- A company or group: its authorised holders, grouped into parent companies by MCF
- A tenure, a region or a commodity statewide
- Daily, the morning after a change, or a weekly roundup on Mondays
- New applications
- Renewals
- Transfers
- Ground released
- EA changes
- PRC plans
- Rehabilitation cost
- Exploration reports
Your QLD tenure watchlist: 6 changes in the week to 4 Oct 2026
Text in blue is a link: click a permit number to open it in the index; EA page, new permit (PDF) and report links open the document itself.
6 changes on your watchlist this week.
Copper in an area drawn around Mount Isa (6)
| EPM 18204 | CHINOVA RESOURCES CLONCURRY MINES PTY LTD | Area reduced 3,194 ha → 2,555 ha · relinquishment is often required at renewal | all minerals except coal |
| ML 5413 | CAPRICORN COPPER PTY LTD | Renewal lodged Current expiry 31 Mar 2027 | copper and uranium Name: Mammoth |
| ML 5418 | CAPRICORN COPPER PTY LTD | Renewal lodged Current expiry 31 Mar 2027 | cobalt and copper Name: Kabunga |
| ML 5419 | CAPRICORN COPPER PTY LTD | Renewal lodged Current expiry 31 Mar 2027 | cobalt and copper Name: Mammoth Extended |
| ML 5420 | CAPRICORN COPPER PTY LTD | Renewal lodged Current expiry 31 Mar 2027 | cobalt and copper Name: Kabunga No 3 |
| ML 5486 | CAPRICORN COPPER PTY LTD | Renewal lodged Current expiry 31 Mar 2027 | cobalt and copper Name: Mammoth West Extended 1 |
Factual information from Queensland Government public registers (resource authorities and the Environmental Authority register), compared with the previous day. © State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0. Compiled from public records and may contain errors; check the official register before relying on it. Not financial product advice. Change your watchlist in the index (Watchlist tab). Choose which kinds of change you're emailed about, and daily alerts, a weekly roundup or none, on your account page. Unsubscribe from watchlist alerts with one click. Mining Capital Funds Pty Ltd, ABN 72 689 736 641, PO Box 3447, South Brisbane QLD 4101.
123Where old holes hit gold and nobody holds the ground
- Ranked by holes that hit grade: here, over 1 g/t gold
- Five-kilometre cells, drilled and mostly unheld
- National parks and restricted land already taken out
1234Every licensed processing plant on the map, nearest to your project first
- Type your permit and the list sorts by distance from it: here, a gold project at Charters Towers
- Mineral processing, crushing and screening, or smelting and refining, for minerals or coal
- The size of plant each EA is licensed for
- Open the EA's conditions and documents, or see the site on the map
156 exploration reports released in the last 30 days, each logged against its tenure
Company exploration reports appear quietly on the Geological Survey of Queensland portal. Most annual reports are released five years after they were due; reports on relinquished or surrendered ground are open as soon as they're lodged. The index logs each one against its tenure the day it's released, and every Monday the brief names the week's moves.
- Partial Relinquishment Report for Period Ending 17 October 2026Silver Star Resources · EPM 27844 · Silver Spur, Goondiwindi Region
- Yarrabee Annual Activity Report for Period Ending 27 August 2021Yarrabee Coal Company · EPC 717 · Jellinbah, Central Highlands Region
- Paradise South Annual Activity Report for Period Ending 27 August 2021ACN 128 020 888 · EPM 16942 · Gunpowder, Mount Isa City
- Boobook Annual Activity Report for Period Ending 27 August 2021Chinova Resources Cloncurry Mines · EPM 17658 · Selwyn, Cloncurry Shire
- Pardalote Annual Activity Report for Period Ending 27 August 2021Chinova Resources Cloncurry Mines · EPM 18401 · Selwyn, Cloncurry Shire
- Stockhaven Annual Activity Report for Period Ending 27 August 2021Pennant Resources · EPM 26769 · Stockhaven, North Burnett Region
Queensland mining market brief, week to 9 Oct 2026
The week's headlines
- Straits Gold Pty Ltd (GBM Resources) applied for exploration permit (minerals) EPM 29727 (Boundary Creek): 29,065 ha of all minerals ground at Mount Coolon, Whitsunday Region.
- Rockspan Resources Limited's environmental authority EA0001484 was reissued. New version effective 24 Sep 2026: 4 added (G1, G2, G3, G4); 43 removed (A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, …).
Explore the free map, then see what the full index adds
The free map below shows every current coal and minerals tenure with its holder, status, expiry and environmental authority. The full index adds the change log, what's coming up, alerts, rehabilitation cost, searchable conditions and everything above.
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Public reference pages from the same data, updated daily: look up any tenure, holder or environmental authority, or browse the map.
Everything in the full index
The free map shows who holds what. The full index shows what's changing, what's coming up, what the regulator is asking and what each site would cost to rehabilitate, every night, for every coal and minerals tenure in Queensland.
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Can I put it on my desktop or phone?
Yes. The index installs like an app, with its own icon, from Chrome or Edge on a computer, Safari on an iPhone or iPad, or Chrome on Android, and opens in its own window. Your account page has the steps.
Where does the data come from?
Queensland Government registers: the resource authority register, the Environmental Protection Act public register and the Geological Survey of Queensland's open data. The index checks them every night and reconciles its tenure counts with the State's register. As with any compiled data, check the official record before relying on it.
What's in the free map, and what's in the full index?
The free map shows every coal and minerals tenure with its authorised holder, status and expiry, and the number of its environmental authority, which has its own public page. The full index adds the conditions and PRC plans with their changes tracked, the nightly change log on the map, what's coming up, watchlists and email alerts, rehabilitation cost, exploration reports and the Monday brief, company profiles, past imagery and map layers, open ground, historic drilling, processing plants and data downloads.
What is the estimated rehabilitation cost?
The regulator's decision on what it would cost to rehabilitate the land an environmental authority covers. It sets the financial provision the holder must give, and it is reviewed when each decision's period ends. The index takes every decision from the Environmental Protection Act public register and shows the one for the current period, with the earlier ones.
How reliable is the drilling data?
It's the Geological Survey's open-file compilation: mostly historic, unverified company data. Treat assays as a guide to follow up, not a resource.
How do renewals, relinquishments and moratoriums work?
Exploration permits run up to five years at a time, 15 in total. Renewal isn't automatic: the window opens six months before expiry (12 for leases, licences and claims) and closes when the permit expires. Relinquishing part of a permit is often required at renewal. When ground is released, the same mineral can't be applied for until a moratorium of at least two calendar months ends; new coal permits generally go to competitive tender. Grants follow native title and environmental steps, which is why they can take months.
Where does the EA and PRC plan information come from?
From the Environmental Protection Act public register: each EA's permit documents, read into numbered conditions, and each PRC plan application's documents, including the regulator's information requests and the company's replies. The index checks the register nightly and compares each new permit version with the last.
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Who we are. The MCF QLD Mining Index is published by Mining Capital Funds, a Brisbane-based investment business focused on Australian mining, which also publishes free coal, copper and gold statistics on its website. It's information, not financial or legal advice.
Data from Queensland Government registers: resource authorities, the Environmental Protection Act public register and Geological Survey of Queensland open data, © State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, refreshed nightly. Railways, ports, key resource areas and quarries: Queensland Government spatial data, CC BY 4.0; power lines: Geoscience Australia, CC BY 4.0. Published by Mining Capital Funds Pty Ltd, ABN 72 689 736 641. Satellite imagery: Digital Earth Australia GeoMAD 2024, Geoscience Australia, CC BY 4.0; screens and past imagery: Esri World Imagery and World Imagery Wayback, Esri and its contributors. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Queensland Government. Provided without warranty of accuracy or completeness; check the official register before relying on any record. Not financial or legal advice.