The Newman Government has given the green light to what will be one of Australia’s biggest mines, the $6.4 billion Alpha Coal Project in Queensland’s Galilee Basin. Copper $ 4.8145 / lb -0.58% ...

The proposed Alpha project, in Queensland, has a Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant resource of 1.8-billion tonnes with an estimated 1.2-billion tonnes of reserves. The opencut operation is ...

This week’s court ruling on the future of the A$6.4 billion Alpha Coal project in Queensland – set to be one of the biggest coal mines in the world – is of major significance for how mining ...

BUSINESS and mining industry stakeholders at a Bowen meeting gave a few rousing cheers when told the Alpha Coal project had taken another step forward. GVK Hancock representatives announced to ...

Gina Rinehart with workers from Hancock Coal at the Alpha coal project in Queensland's Galilee Basin in 2011. The Land Court today handed down a decision that the Environmental Authority and ...

The community of Alpha sits amongst several major coal mine proposals worth more than $6 billion in the resource-rich Galilee Basin, and the first of the projects could go ahead within months.

Conservationists have failed in an attempt to block the development of the Alpha coal project by India’s GVK and Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart.