Wesfarmers Resources

Wesfarmers Resources owns and operates the Curragh open cut mine which is located 14 kilometres north west of Blackwater and 200 kilometres west of Rockhampton in Queensland’s Bowen Basin. Curragh currently produces around 6.5 million tonnes of export coal and 2.5 million tonnes of domestic steaming coal per year. Export coal is railed 300 kilometres to the Port of Gladstone with Curragh’s steaming coal railed 160 kilometres directly to the Stanwell Power Station near Rockhampton.