The Dawson West Project was a proposed coal mining development located approximately 20km west of the town of Theodore and about 80km south-east of Rolleston in central Queensland. The project was situated near the boundary of the Bowen and Surat basins, two of Australia’s major coal-bearing geological regions. Exploration at the site identified a substantial […]

The Dawson Mine is a large coal mining complex located about 10km south of the town of Moura in Central Queensland. Operated by Anglo American, the operation produces both metallurgical coal used in steelmaking and thermal coal used for electricity generation. Mining at Dawson is conducted using conventional open-cut methods, including drilling and blasting followed […]

Dawson mine workers and contractors have been digging deep to help raise more than $35,000 to assist regional families while they access vital cance…

Anglo American’s Dawson coal mine has reached a rehabilitation milestone showing mined land can be responsibly restored for future agricultural use…

Delta Dunia Group is poised to expand its presence in the Bowen Basin through subsidiary BUMA’s planned acquisition of a 51 per cent interest in the…

Macmahon Holdings has been reappointed as the mining contractor at the Dawson South coal operation in a deal worth about $130 million a year. The…

Anglo American and Komatsu’s Growing Together mine rehabilitation partnership has been expanded with new tree planting days that will see a total of…

Macmahon Holdings is finalising a contract worth about $200 million to provide surface mining services for Dawson South mine near Moura in Central Q…

Five Liebherr T 264 off-highway haul trucks have joined MacKellar Mining’s fleet this year at Dawson mine, near Moura in Central Queensland. The…

Anglo American has opened a new sealed road running between the Dawson and Liechhardt highways in Banana Shire. The 12.7km Three Chain Rd connect…

Dawson mine is facing a workforce cut after falling coal prices sparked an Anglo American move to defer some production activities at the Bowen Basi…

Sharon Dawson is a Cairns-based director with the Dawsons Group of Companies. She joined iQ for a quick Christmas Q&A…. What was th…

Anglo American has backed off a proposal to introduce driverless trucks to its Dawson Mine operations in Central Queensland. The big miner has be…

A Dawson rescue team has triumphed at this year’s Southern Queensland Mine Rescue Challenge. Jeebropilly, the last operating coal mine in the Ips…

Anglo American is looking into replacing 23 trucks with an Autonomous Haulage System at its Dawson coal mine, near Moura in Central Queensland. A…