Each row is one mine, one financial year and one coal type or activity, with the tonnes of discards, gross raw feed, gross raw output and net output the operator reported.

Net output is the saleable coal a mine produced after washing, in tonnes. Gross raw output is the coal mined before processing. A row usually carries a figure in only some of the four columns, and the rest are zero as published.

Is the latest financial year complete?

The publisher updates the tables during the year, so the newest financial year can be part of a year. The title row of the workbook gives the month it was updated.

Datasets / Queensland / Natural Resources and Mines / Queensland coal production and sales statistics

Coal production by mine, Queensland

Name: Coal production by mine, Queensland
Creator: Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development
Published: 2026-09-17
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Publisher Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural DevelopmentUpdated several times a yearLicence CC BY 4.0Latest 2026-09-17Rows 2,803Fields 8

One row per Queensland coal mine, financial year and coal type or activity from FY2010, with the mine type (open cut or underground) and the tonnes of discards, gross raw feed, gross raw output and net output reported to the department. This is the Coal production by mine sheet of the coal industry review statistical tables.

Also called: Queensland coal industry review statistical tables, Queensland coal mine output by financial year, Saleable coal production by mine Queensland.

Part of Queensland coal production and sales statistics, 4 tables the publisher releases together: Coal exports by mine and destination country, Queensland, Coal exports and sales value by country, Queensland, Saleable coal production by year and coal type, Queensland.

Before you use it

What is in each row?: Each row is one mine, one financial year and one coal type or activity, with the tonnes of discards, gross raw feed, gross raw output and net output the operator reported.
What is net output?: Net output is the saleable coal a mine produced after washing, in tonnes. Gross raw output is the coal mined before processing. A row usually carries a figure in only some of the four columns, and the rest are zero as published.
Is the latest financial year complete?: The publisher updates the tables during the year, so the newest financial year can be part of a year. The title row of the workbook gives the month it was updated.

Made for agents

Connect your AI agent

Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 8 fields, count and filter across all 2,803 rows and diff its versions. Every answer names the version and carries Natural Resources and Mines's attribution. No key.

Then ask it: What does Coal production by mine, Queensland hold, and what changed in the newest version?

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

One command. No key, no account, no sign-up.

https://publicdata.au/mcp

Streamable HTTP. Cursor, VS Code or any client that connects to a remote MCP server.

Using https://publicdata.au/llms.txt, how many people died on Queensland roads in 2025, by month?

For an assistant that reads the web and has no connector.

ExploreChart every row in your browser

A dashboard over every row. Click to filter, add panels, share a link or embed a frame.

Query APIFilter and count from a URL

aggregate?group=mine&metric=sum.net_output&financial_year=eq.FY2026

Saleable tonnes by mine where financial year is FY2026: 14,142,773 Rolleston Mine, 12,506,002 Goonyella Riverside And Broadmeadow Mine - Open Cut, 11,640,537 Carmichael Coal Mine, 11,104,797 Blackwater Mine.

Download it as Excel, CSV, JSON and 6 more formats

Pick a format and a version. Excel is picked first because it opens in the tools most offices have. The URL is yours to keep. A dated version never changes.

Format

Version "Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version never changes.

https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/latest/data.xlsx

Download

In your own tools

Use it in Excel, R, Python and more

Excel and Power BI read the CSV from its address and refresh from it. The R and Python packages take any dataset on this site by its slug, so a new dataset needs no new release. The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS, and a query reads only the blocks it touches.

The dated URL in the code never changes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/latest/ redirects to the newest version.

https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/latest/data.csv

In Excel choose Data, then From Web, and paste this address. Excel keeps it, so Refresh All reads the newest version. A sheet holds about a million rows; past that, load the query to the Data Model.

https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/latest/data.csv

In Power BI Desktop choose Get data, then Web, paste this address and choose Anonymous when asked how to sign in. A scheduled refresh reads the same address, so the report follows each new version.

library(publicdataau)
df <- pd_read("qld-coal-production-by-mine")
pd_attribution(df)

install.packages("publicdataau"). pd_read() fetches the version's Parquet file; pd_rows() and pd_aggregate() ask the query API instead, and pd_connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

import publicdata_au as pd_au
df = pd_au.read("qld-coal-production-by-mine")
df.attrs["publicdata"]["attribution"]

pip install "publicdata-au[pandas]". read() fetches the version's Parquet file; rows() and aggregate() ask the query API, and connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs;
ATTACH 'https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/v/2026-09-17/data.duckdb' AS qld_coal_production_by_mine (READ_ONLY);
SELECT financial_year, count(*) FROM qld_coal_production_by_mine.records GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC;

The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS and only the blocks a query touches are read. Parquet works the same way: FROM read_parquet(url).

const res = await fetch("https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-coal-production-by-mine/aggregate?group=mine&metric=sum.net_output&financial_year=eq.FY2026");
const { rows, publicdata } = await res.json();
console.log(rows, publicdata.attribution);

The query API answers a page on any site as well as Node, with no key. It returns the rows and the attribution the licence asks for.

What is in it

Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.

Field	Type	Publisher's header	Note
mine	string	Mine
mine_type	string	Mine Type	Open Cut or Underground.
financial_year	string	Financial year	As published, for example FY2025 for July 2024 to June 2025.
coal_type	string	Coal type	For example Coal, PCI, Coking, Thermal or Wash Discard.
discards	number	Discards
gross_raw_feed	number	Gross Raw Feed
gross_raw_output	number	Gross Raw Output
net_output	number	Net output	Saleable coal, in tonnes.

Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json. The key is mine, financial_year, coal_type.

A sample of 10 rows

The ten mine and coal type lines with the most saleable coal in the newest financial year, largest first. A blank cell is shown as null.

mine	mine_type	financial_year	coal_type	net_output
Rolleston Mine	Open Cut	FY2026	Thermal	14142773
Goonyella Riverside And Broadmeadow Mine - Open Cut	Open Cut	FY2026	Coking	12074466
Carmichael Coal Mine	Open Cut	FY2026	Thermal	11640537
Blackwater Mine	Open Cut	FY2026	Coking	10452739
Clermont Open Cut	Open Cut	FY2026	Thermal	9598883
Callide Mine	Open Cut	FY2026	Thermal	9447697
Caval Ridge	Open Cut	FY2026	Coking	9254443
Saraji - Open Cut	Open Cut	FY2026	Coking	7638255
Peak Downs	Open Cut	FY2026	Coking	7117735
South Walker Creek	Open Cut	FY2026	PCI	6696613

The first row as JSON

As it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/latest/data.json
{
  "mine": "Baralaba North Mine",
  "mine_type": "Open Cut",
  "financial_year": "FY2026",
  "coal_type": "Coal",
  "discards": 0.0,
  "gross_raw_feed": 1584616.0,
  "gross_raw_output": 1522893.0,
  "net_output": 0.0
}

Query it without downloading

The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Build a query here and run it, then copy the URL or the code into your own work.

Try rows or aggregate for this dataset. The query builder needs JavaScript.

How filters work

Each filter is field=operator.value in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with ilike. Prefix not. to negate a filter, as not.eq.value.

Operator	What it matches
eq.value	Equal to the value.
neq.value	Not equal to the value. A blank cell does not match.
gt.value	Greater than the value.
gte.value	Greater than or equal to the value.
lt.value	Less than the value.
lte.value	Less than or equal to the value.
like.text	Matches a pattern where * stands for any run of characters. Case-sensitive.
ilike.text	The same as like, ignoring case.
in.(a,b,c)	Equal to any value in the list. A value cannot contain a comma.
is.null	Blank in the source, or suppressed by the publisher.

Parameter	What it does
select	Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent.
order	field.asc or field.desc, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent.
limit	Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent.
offset	Rows to skip. The next URL in each answer sets it for you.
group	On aggregate, fields to group by, comma-separated.
metric	On aggregate, count, sum.field, avg.field, min.field or max.field, comma-separated. count when absent.
format	json, ndjson or csv. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers.

Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put versions/<date>/ before rows or aggregate for an answer that never changes. /api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions lists the loaded versions. The 1 newest version is loaded; versions lists them.

The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a Retry-After header, a RateLimit-Policy header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same RateLimit-Policy. A client should wait the Retry-After seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. openapi.json describes this dataset's query paths for client generators and agents.

https://publicdata.au/mcp is a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with the same tools, defined in the same place, so a tool added to the pages is added here too. It needs no key and no account. The row tools are held to the query API's limit of 60 queries in 10 seconds from one address, and each call is two queries because it also counts the matching rows. Add it to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp, add the URL in Claude as a custom connector, or give it to any client that connects to remote MCP servers. Each queryable dataset is also a resource at https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/fields.json, which lists its fields with their types, the publisher's descriptions, their ranges and the values they hold, so an agent can read a dataset's shape before it writes a query.

Smaller files

The same rows split by a field, one JSON file each. Each file carries the same provenance header.

By financial_year (17 files)

FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025 FY2026

by/financial_year/index.json lists every file with its row count.

What changed

One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal.

2026-09-17
2,803 rows8 fieldsxlsxd71f3b9a6c9b

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (31 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

Questions

How do I download Coal production by mine as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/v/2026-09-17/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.

Can I open Coal production by mine in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/v/2026-09-17/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 2,803 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/v/2026-09-17/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

What years does Coal production by mine cover?

The current version covers the years since 2009. Each release from Natural Resources and Mines becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.

How often is Coal production by mine updated?

Natural Resources and Mines releases it several times a year. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.

Can I use Coal production by mine commercially?

Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file.

Is this the official source for Coal production by mine?

No. The publisher is Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/coal-industry-review-statistical-tables. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.xlsx with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.

How do I get only the rows for one financial year?

Every version has one JSON file per value of financial_year, 17 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/v/2026-09-17/by/financial_year/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/v/2026-09-17/by/financial_year/fy2024.json holds the 203 rows where financial_year is FY2024.

What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version as source.xlsx so the change can be checked.

Queensland coal production and sales statistics is 4 tables here, and each takes its version date from its own file.

Attribution and citation

The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used.

Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development, Queensland Government, Coal industry review statistical tables, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/coal-industry-review-statistical-tables, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-coal-production-by-mine/v/2026-09-17/

The attribution alone is inside every file. Harvard is the author-date form a report or a brief asks for. Paste the HTML on a web page so the links carry.

Licence record

Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development states the licence, CC BY 4.0, on its own page, which was read and recorded here on 1 October 2026.

Every fetch reads the licence again and stops when it has changed. The fetch that made version 2026-09-17 read it from www.data.qld.gov.au on 3 October 2026.

Also published on

Hugging Faceload_dataset("National-Digital/qld-coal-production-by-mine")
Kagglewith a starter notebook
ZenodoDOI 10.5281/zenodo.23122547

Each copy carries the same attribution and links back to this page.

For agents and tools

datapackage.jsonFrictionless data package pointing at the latest version
schema.jsonTable Schema for every field
schema.xlsxthe same field list as an Excel data dictionary
versions.jsonevery version with date, rows, fields and hash
changes.jsondiff for every consecutive pair
manifest.jsonwhere the bytes came from and when
Query APIfiltered rows and counts without a download
openapi.jsonOpenAPI 3.1 for this dataset's query paths
explore/charts and dashboards in the browser, shareable and embeddable
index.mdthis page as Markdown

This page carries a schema.org Dataset record and is listed in /.well-known/ard.json and /catalog.json.

Source

Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development publishes this table on www.data.qld.gov.au. Questions about the content go to the publisher. Questions about the files here go to corrections.

Fetched 3 October 2026. Source SHA-256 d71f3b9a6c9b3154…

Improve this dataset

This page is built from register/qld-coal-production-by-mine.yaml on GitHub. Anyone can propose a fix to it, such as a clearer description or a field the publisher renamed, as a pull request.

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