Duchess Paradise Coalfield, Liveringa Station, Derby-West Kimberley Shire, Western Australia, Australiai

Regional Level Types
Duchess Paradise Coalfield	Coal Field
Liveringa Station	- not defined -
Derby-West Kimberley Shire	Shire
Western Australia	State
Australia	Country

In 2012, Rey Resources announced plans to open a coal mine here. What resulted was a storm of local protest, with complaints ranging from its environmental impact on the endangered sawfish in the Fitzroy River, to coal road trains plying the highway to Derby.

Rey withdrew its application from the Environmental Protection Authority citing low coal prices. It tried to sell the deposit to Hong Kong's Yield Investments but the sale fell through. Rey quietly removed all evidence of the project from its website.

The proposal was for the Duchess Paradise coal deposit, 5 kilometres north of the Camballin Barrage on the Fitzroy River on Liveringa Station, 175 kilometres south-east of Derby. The deposit contains an estimated 540 Mt of coal in P1 upper section and P2 lower section. The first was to be an open pit, and the lower deposit mined via underground methods. Up to 25 Mt of coal was to be mined per annum, transported by road trains (one every 10 minutes) to Derby, where coal would be transported by barges to ships off the coast.

There are in fact several coal deposits in the area: Camballin North, Liveringa Ridge, Victory, Kings, Freney, Mount Fenton, Jimbularra Ridge, Wynne Creek, Noonkanbah, and Scarpia, of which little is known. It is unlikely any will be mined, due to the world moving away from coal mining, the remote location, low coal prices, and environmental factors.

Rey Resources moved on, to investigate oil and gas in its tenements. The area already has a couple of small producing oilfields, including Blina and Ungani, and several discovered gas fields. Fracking needed for the gas fields, opens a new environmental front.

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