Crinum is a rural

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in the

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, Australia. At the , Crinum had a population of 86 people.

Geography

The Kestrel coal mine is located in the locality (). It produced both thermal and

coking Coking is the heating of coal in the absence of oxygen to a temperature above 600 °C to drive off the volatile components of the raw coal, leaving a hard, strong, porous material of high carbon content called coke. Coke consists almost ent ...

coal. The mine has an estimated 50 to 100 megatonnes of coal. It is part of the Kestrel coal reserve which spreads across Crinum and extends into neighbouring Lilyvale, Wyuna and Gordonstone, which has an estimated 100 to 500 megatonnes of coal. Although there are a number of the mines in the area, the predominant land use is

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...

and cropping.

History

Gregory Mine State School opened on 10 July 1978 but closed on 14 December 1979. Following the dismissal of a group of mine workers from the Gordonstone Coal Mine (later renamed by Rio Tinto to Kestral Coal Mine), the workers maintained a protest line from early October 1997 to August 1999, becoming Australia's longest running black coal labour dispute. In 1998 they erected a monument to the protest (the Lilyvale Stand Monument). In the , Crinum had a population of 86 people.

Heritage listings

Crinum has a number of

heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many ...

sites, including: * Lilyvale Road ():

Lilyvale Stand Monument Lilyvale Stand Monument is a heritage-listed memorial at Lilyvale Road, Crinum, Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1998. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 2 April 2004. History The Lilyvale Sta ...

Education

There are no schools in Crinum. The nearest primary schools are Capella State School in Capella to the north-west and Emerald North State School in

Emerald Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium or sometimes vanadium.Hurlbut, Cornelius S. Jr. and Kammerling, Robert C. (1991) ''Gemology'', John Wiley & Sons, New York, p ...

to the south. The nearest secondary schools are Capella State High School in Capella and Emerald State High School in Emerald.

References

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{{Central Highlands Region Central Highlands Region Localities in Queensland