US producer Peabody Energy has restarted longwall production at its 4.7mn t/yr Centurion coking coal mine in Australia following an eight-year pause, the company confirmed to Argus today.
Peabody moved up its Centurion longwall restart timeline in early February. The company will focus on ramping up production at the mine in 2026, Peabody's chief executive Jim Grech said on 6 February.
Peabody plans to produce 3.5mn t of coking coal at Centurion in 2026 and 4.7mn t/yr from 2028, the company said at the time. It expects to sell 2.4mn t of coking coal in January-March.
Peabody shipped development coal out of Centurion in December 2024. It sent a shipment of coal from the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal to a customer in Asia.
The company halted production at Centurion — then known as the North Goonyella mine — in September 2018 because of a fire.
Peabody's Centurion restart comes months after UK-South African producer Anglo American commenced limited production at its Moranbah North coking coal mine, which it shuttered in March 2025 because of an ignition.
Anglo American also plans to reopen its Grosvenor coking coal mine in 2027. The company closed Grosvenor in June 2024, when a fire ripped through the 5mn t/yr underground site. Regulators only allowed Anglo American staff to enter Grosvenor in August 2025.
