Data as at 2 October 2026 · from Queensland Government mining tenure registers
Queensland mining lease
ML 700070 · Comet Downs
ML 700070 (Comet Downs) is a Queensland mining lease held by WHITEHAVEN BLACKWATER PTY LTD (Whitehaven Coal group). Status application. 5,914 ha in the Bowen Basin area. Commodities: Coal.
- Type
- Mining lease
Coal or oil shale - Status
- Application
- Parent group
- Whitehaven Coal
- Project or name
- Comet Downs
- Lodged
- 29 November 2021
- Area
- 5,913.60 hectares (59.1 km²)
- Region
- Bowen Basin
- Commodities
- Coal
- Native title
- Private ILUA
- Geological Survey data
- 60 company reports, 17 boreholes within or naming this tenure
- Location
- -24.04528, 148.68862 (centre)