After coal has been mined and processed the coal is transported to its customers. This fact sheet discusses the ways in which the coal is transported and provides statistics about exports and export destinations.

The Science of Mining gives secondary science teachers ideas to promote student leaning in earth science and other science concepts in the context of mining activities in Queensland.The material is organised around outcomes focusing on a key question asked by students about rocks, minerals and mining.This resource will help you explore everything from plate tectonics, demonstrate different exploration and drilling techniques, role play environmental management scenarios and explore the chemistry behind a blast furnace or electrolysis.

This comprehensive Giants that Walk the Earth PowerPoint provides a study of the dragline; the largest piece of machinery in operation in Australia. All year levels will benefit from the introduction with the latter sections more suited to the senior years of Physics and Engineering Technology.

This PowerPoint gives an excellent oversight as to how maths is critical in mining careers. Information kindly provided by Thiess.

Using data provided by Ette in the Haul Truck vodcast (found here), students use trigonometry to solve a number of sequential, challenging problems related to inclined planes in open-cut mines.

Using data provided by Sci in the Electric Rope Shovel vodcast (found here), students complete a number of sequential problems using trigonometry to solve challenging questions related to the electric rope shovel and pit in which it is working.

Using data provided by George in the Dragline vodcast (found here), students complete a number of sequential problems to solve a challenging task.

The mining industry in Queensland provides a relevant and engaging context in which students can investigate the mathematics of measurement.The lessons in this unit may be utilised as a stand alone unit, or individual lessons may be used within other units of work to introduce problem solving in a real-world context.This unit investigates the mathematics of measurement in mining in Queensland using the resources on the OresomeResources site and is in line with Queensland Studies Authority Year 10 Guidelines.

In this activity students assume the role of an environmental scientist in planning the reshaping of a steep waste rock dump or spoil pile into a gradual slope using a scale model. They then take on the role of a bulldozer driver in carrying out these plans.

This is a teachers guide for a unit of work to cover aspects of the Engineering Mechanics section of the Queensland syllabus in Engineering Technology. The unit is constructed around a theme of mining and contains lesson plans, teaching ideas, assessment instruments and standards matrices.