Chris Blackburn's Contact Details

Chris Blackburn's Company Details

Wesfarmers Curragh

, Queensland, Australia • 51 - 200 Employees
Mining & Metals

Coronado Global Resources is a leading international producer of high-quality metallurgical coal, an essential element in the production of steel. Our coals, transformed in the steelmaking process, support the manufacture of every day steel-based products that enrich lives around the world.We own a portfolio of operating mines and development projects in Queensland, Australia, and in Virginia and West Virginia in the US. In 2017, we were the fifth largest met coal producer globally by export volume1 and the largest met coal producer in the US by production volume2.Our management team has over 100 years of combined experience in all aspects of the coal value chain and has a successful track record of building and operating coal mining operations in Australia, the US and globally. This operational experience is supplemented with a strong knowledge base of Australian and US domestic and international coal markets and their key drivers.Using state-of-the-art mining equipment and techniques, Coronado produces high-quality metallurgical coal from four mining complexes, in two of the largest and most productive metallurgical coal basins in the world—Queensland's Bowen Basin and the Central Appalachian region of the US.In Queensland, Australia, we own the producing Curragh complex, located in the prolific Bowen Basin, and in the Central Appalachian region in Virginia and West Virginia, in the US, we own the producing Buchanan, Logan and Greenbrier complexes. These safe and efficient mining complexes comprise eight active and highly productive coal mines with immediate access to transportation infrastructure. Coronado is one of the lowest cost and most reliable sources of a suite of metallurgical coal products which are sought after by steelmakers and merchant coke plants around the world.