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We are a leading, global mining company

With significant operations in Queensland, Australia. Anglo American is the world’s third largest seaborne exporter of steelmaking coal. We have two open cut and three underground steelmaking coal mines in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, along with additional joint venture interests and growth projects.

Operation: Aquila

The Aquila underground steelmaking coal mine is located near Middlemount, in Central Queensland’s Bowen Basin.

Aquila Mine has been developed as one Australia’s most technologically advanced underground mines, leveraging Anglo American’s advancements in underground automation technology, remote operations and data analytics.

The mine features two longwalls, allowing us to operate without the downtime that is usually required for longwall moves. Both longwalls are fully remote capable, and can be sequentially operated from our site-based remote operations centre on the surface of the mine.

Aquila is jointly owned by Anglo American and Mitsui Coal Holdings Pty Ltd, with Anglo American as the managing company.

Operation: Capcoal

The Capcoal complex consists of the Capcoal Open Cut and Aquila Underground mines, near Middlemount, in Central Queensland's Bowen Basin.

Together these mines produce quality steelmaking coal for export steel markets. The majority of coal is mined from the German Creek Formation, which contains five coal seam intervals known as the German Creek, Corvus, Tieri, Aquila and Pleiades seams. Mining leases controlled by Capcoal cover 33,513 hectares.

Operation: Dawson

Dawson Mine is an open cut steelmaking coal mine operation made up of three operating pits – North, Central and South. It commenced operations in 1961 and is one of the oldest coal mining operations in Central Queensland. Dawson Mine was the first mine in Australia to export coal to Japan in 1961 and was the first mine to introduce draglines into its operation in 1963.

Anglo American acquired its interest in the mine in May 2002, as part of an alliance with Mitsui. Dawson Mine is a joint venture between Anglo American (51%) and Mitsui Holdings (49%), and is operated by Anglo American.

Operation: Moranbah North

Moranbah North is an underground longwall mine which began operating in 1998. Moranbah North's steelmaking coal is mined from the Goonyella Middle Seam mainly for export to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, Brazil and European countries.

Moranbah North is 88% owned by Anglo American, with the remaining 12% owned by joint venture partners.

Moranbah South is a joint venture project with Exarro, which you can find out more about in the ‘Projects’ section.

• Download the Moranbah Grosvenor Stakeholder Accountability Report 2023

Operation: Grosvenor

The Grosvenor underground steelmaking coal mine produced its first longwall coal in May 2016. The site is located in Moranbah, approximately 190 kilometres south-west of Mackay.

Following a localised ignition at Grosvenor Mine on 29 June 2024, the operation is now in a project phase.

In August 2025, Grosvenor Mine received approval from Queensland’s safety regulator for the first stage of re-entry - a significant milestone in our restart journey.

This approval marks the beginning of a staged and carefully managed re-entry process. Every stage will progress in close collaboration with Resources Safety and Health Queensland and Industry Safety and Health Representatives, with the safety of our people our highest priority - always. 

We thank our teams for their ongoing commitment and dedication in reaching this point. Our focus remains on working together for a safe and successful restart at Grosvenor Mine.

 

Project: Moranbah South

Moranbah South is a future 50% joint venture project between Anglo American and Exxaro in Central Queensland, south of our Grosvenor project. In mid-2014 we received the draft environmental approval from the Queensland Government and in November 2014 we received approval from the Australian Federal Government.

The resource consists of high quality steelmaking coal and the project would involve developing a brand new underground longwall operation.

Discovery

Anglo American currently has discovery projects in North West Queensland and Western Australia, with early stage project generation activities across the country.

Our greenfield discovery activities are predominately focused on copper. The mineral-system focus also brings the potential for co/by-products, including PGMs, nickel, gold, cobalt, silver, molybdenum and zinc. The Group has active greenfield programmes in Australia, Canada, USA, Greenland, South America (Brazil, Chile and Peru), Europe (Germany) and sub-Saharan Africa (Angola, Botswana and Zambia).