Yancoal Australia (ASX: YAL) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Yancoal Australia is an Australian coal producer specializing in high-quality thermal and semi-soft coking coals.

Yancoal Australia
Yancoal Australia is a major Australian coal producer that operates open-cut and underground coal mines in New South Wales, Queensland, and Western Australia. The company produces and processes thermal coal for power generation and metallurgical coal for steel manufacturing. Yancoal exports most of its production to international energy and industrial markets across Asia, including Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea, while supplying domestic customers in Australia. Its business spans the full mining life cycle, including geological exploration, mine development, resource extraction, coal processing, logistics, port infrastructure, environmental management, and land rehabilitation.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Yancoal Australia
- Thermal Coal Operations: Open-cut and underground mining complexes located in New South Wales that extract high-grade thermal coal. Production is processed and transported via rail and port logistics networks for export to major Asian energy markets.
- Hunter Valley Mining Assets: Integrated open-cut coal mining operations located in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales. These facilities produce thermal and semi-soft coking coal supplied to international energy utility and steelmaking customers.
- Metallurgical Coal Mining: Open-cut mining operations in Queensland producing pulverized coal injection and coking coal grades. Extracted products are processed and shipped across global sea routes for steel manufacturing and heavy industrial applications.
- Darling Downs Thermal Asset: Open-cut thermal coal mining operations situated in Queensland's Darling Downs region. The facility extracts low-ash thermal coal transported by rail to coastal ports for export to foreign electricity utility clients.
- Western Australian Operations: Open-cut thermal coal mining asset located in the Collie Basin of Western Australia. The facility extracts energy coal supplied directly under supply contracts to regional power stations for local domestic electricity generation.
- Port and Supply Chain Logistics: Equity interests in export coal terminals and coordinated rail network infrastructure across eastern Australia. These facilities provide coal handling, blending, storage, and vessel loading services for international export operations.
Yancoal Australia executive team
- Sharif BurraChief Executive Officer
- Ning YueExecutive Co-Vice Chairman
- Ning SuChief Financial Officer
- David BennettExecutive General Manager of Operations
- Frank FulhamChief Sustainability, Technology, Innovation & Development Officer
- Brendan FitzpatrickGeneral Manager of Investor Relations
- Ling ZhangCompany Secretary & Chief Legal, Compliance and Corporate Affairs Officer
- Mark SalemExecutive General Manager of Marketing
- Michael J. WellsExecutive General Manager of Finance
- Mark JacobsExecutive General Manager of Environment & Community