On September 19, 2005, Roger Bruce Browne, 41 was killed after he fell more than 50m at the Dawson Mine. He was found the following day at 10.30am after his partner contacted the mine repeatedly to say he had never come home. 

Mr Browne was employed as Senior Mining Engineer in ... Read More

At about 23:35 hours on Sunday 7 August 1994, an explosion occurred in the Moura No 2 underground coal mine.

There were twenty-one persons working underground at the time. Ten men from the northern area of the mine escaped within thirty minutes of the explosion but eleven from the souther... Read More

Tom Bolton and Peter Kerr received fatal injuries and Shane Swift and Morris Bissell received serious injuries when a water truck WT3 rolled forward in pit 19B at the Moura open cut mine and collided with the side of a service vehicle (ST4). The service truck (ST4) was parked parallel to&nbs... Read More

At approximately 11:05 a.m. on 16th July, 1986 there was an explosion in Moura No. 4 Underground Mine in Central Queensland. The 12 miners who were extracting pillars in the Main Dips Section were killed. Their bodies were recovered on 23rd July, 1986 after an extensive recovery operation.<... Read More

Underground coal mining operations commenced in the Goonyella Middle Seam (6m nominal thickness) in the early 1990s with the development of North Goonyella Coal Mine (White Mining) and Moranbah North Coal (Shell Coal). BMA developed the Broadmeadow Mine at Goonyella Riverside in 2004 and construc... Read More