Yancoal is an Australian

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company operating mines in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. A dual-listed company on the

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and the

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, it is majority owned by

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History

Yancoal was established in 2004 with the acquisition of the

Austar coal mine The Austar coal mine is a coal mine located near Paxton, New South Wales. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 221 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. In 2012, the mine had an annual production ...

in the

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. In June 2012 it was listed on the

. In September 2017

Coal & Allied Coal & Allied is an Australia coal mining company. Operating mines in the Hunter Region, it is a subsidiary of Yancoal. History Coal & Allied was formed in 1960 when Caledonian Collieries and J & A Brown & Abermain-Seaham Collieries merged. H ...

was purchased by Yancoal from Rio Tinto. In December 2018 Yancoal became a dual-listed company when it was listed on the

Assets

Current

New South Wales

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*Hunter Valley Operations (51%) with

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* Moolarben (95%) *Mount Thorley Warkworth (80%) * Stratford Duralie

Queensland

* Cameby Downs *

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(50%) with Peabody *

Yarrabee Yarrabee Wesfarmers Reserve is a 9.23 km2 nature reserve in south-west Western Australia. It is 120 km north-east of Albany, Western Australia, Albany and 481 km south-east of Perth. It lies on the eastern boundary of the Stirlin ...

Western Australia

*Premier, purchased from Wesfarmers in September 2011

Former

* Austar *DonaldsonYancoal's Donaldson coal to shut down
''Australian Mining'' 3 March 2016

References

{{Mining companies of Australia, state=collapsed Coal companies of Australia Companies based in Sydney Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Dual-listed companies Non-renewable resource companies established in 2004 2004 establishments in Australia