Data as at 2 October 2026 · from Queensland Government mining tenure registers
Queensland mining lease
ML 1759 · BLACKWATER MINE
ML 1759 (BLACKWATER MINE) is a Queensland mining lease held by WHITEHAVEN BLACKWATER PTY LTD (Whitehaven Coal group). Status granted, granted 2 December 1965, expires 31 December 2029. 13,525 ha in the Bowen Basin area. Commodities: Coal. Environmental authority EPML00717813.
- Type
- Mining lease
Coal or oil shale - Status
- Granted
- Parent group
- Whitehaven Coal
- Project or name
- BLACKWATER MINE
- Purpose
- GASHYD
- Lodged
- 30 August 1965
- Granted
- 2 December 1965
- Expires
- 31 December 2029
- Area
- 13,525.00 hectares (135.2 km²)
- Region
- Bowen Basin
- Commodities
- Coal
- Native title
- Private ILUA
- Previous references
- ML110CLER
- Environmental authority
- EPML00717813 Granted
- Geological Survey data
- 59 company reports, 46 boreholes within or naming this tenure
- Location
- -23.57638, 148.83031 (centre)