Brown Coal
Victoria boasts a 430-billion tonne brown coal reserve which is a huge portion of the world's coal resources. In 2013-14, total production in Victoria amounted to 57.8 Mt (metric tonnes).
Victoria’s brown coal is typically low in ash, sulphur, heavy metals and nitrogen. This makes it very low in impurities by world standards.
More than 80 per cent of our brown coal (also called lignite) is located in the Gippsland Basin, off the South-East coast of Victoria.
Brown coal, or lignite, is the lowest rank of coal and although it is present in all states of Australia it is most abundant in the Gippsland Basin (Victoria). Smaller amounts of brown coal are also located in the Otway (Victoria), Murray (Victoria/South Australia) and Eucla (Western Australia/South Australia) basins.
Black Rock Trading are one of Australia's leading exporters of Brown Coal.