Search continues for missing man at Curragh mine in Blackwater
A man is missing after a roof collapsed in a central Queensland mine on Friday afternoon, while a second worker has been taken to hospital.
Emergency services received reports of the collapse at the Curragh coal mine in Blackwater, about 200 kilometres west of Rockhampton, about 3pm on Friday.
Queensland Police said two men who were working at the mine were caught in the collapse, which Nine News said occurred about 1 kilometre from the mine’s entrance.
Police located one man, who was treated and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
“One other man remains unaccounted for,” a police spokesperson said.
The Curragh mine site covers about 256 square kilometres across two separate mines, and has been in operation since 1983.
The oldest part of the site includes a large open-cut mine, but the operation expanded to include an underground mine, called Mammoth Underground, where operations began in December 2024.
Resources Safety and Health Queensland, the government entity that oversees mining workplaces, confirmed a roof had collapsed in the underground section of the mine.
On Friday evening, an RSHQ spokesperson said its own officers were at the scene, alongside ambulance and police crews searching for the missing miner.
