Data as at 2 October 2026 · from Queensland Government mining tenure registers
Queensland mining lease
ML 1771 · SIRIUS CREEK
ML 1771 (SIRIUS CREEK) is a Queensland mining lease held by WHITEHAVEN BLACKWATER PTY LTD (Whitehaven Coal group). Status granted, granted 12 October 1978, expires 30 September 2041. 7,209 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
- SIRIUS CREEK
- Purpose
- GASHYD
- Lodged
- 25 September 1970
- Granted
- 12 October 1978
- Expires
- 30 September 2041
- Area
- 7,208.67 hectares (72.1 km²)
- Region
- Bowen Basin
- Commodities
- Coal
- Native title
- Granted before 1 January 1994
- Previous references
- ML197CLER
- Environmental authority
- EPML00717813 Granted
- Geological Survey data
- 49 company reports, 2 boreholes within or naming this tenure
- Location
- -23.93566, 148.88396 (centre)