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Australian coal, Bowen Basin & Newcastle
Newcastle, Australia32.93°S 151.78°E
computed criticality17/100
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World's top metallurgical coal exporter; ~2nd thermal coal (~350 Mt exported/yr)
2024Fault line
Australia supplies most of the coking coal feeding Asia's blast furnaces, and a large share of the thermal coal imported by Japan, Korea and India. Global steelmaking depends directly on a few basins in Queensland and New South Wales, and on the Port of Newcastle, the world's largest coal terminal.
Actors
BHP Mitsubishi Alliance
Glencore
Whitehaven Coal
Port of Newcastle
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