! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Lithgow Region Illawarra Region Newcastle & Central Coast Region Hunter Region Gunnedah Region Gloucester Region Ulan, Mudgee & Bylong Region 13 6 10 11 12 8 1 5 2 3 4 9 7 Sydney Maitland Newcastle Wollongong Lithgow Gloucester Singleton Bathurst Orange Dunedoo Coonabarabran Narrabri Tamworth Muswellbrook Gulgong Mudgee Wyong Dubbo Canberra Goulburn Penrith Bowral Quirindi Gunnedah Gilgandra Moree Yass Port Macquarie 0 110 220 55 km Date: June 2020 Coordinate System: GDA 1994 Areas in NSW coal regions available and excluded from future coal exploration and mining Mining, Exploration & Geoscience Towns and cities Highways Region where coal is present Potential areas for release for coal exploration under the Strategic Release Framework Coal mining prohibited by State Environmental Planning Policy No proactive releases for coal exploration under the Strategic Release Framework. New coal exploration can only occur adjacent to an existing coal title Land reserved under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 – coal exploration and mining prohibited Company coal exploration or mining titles No coal present Legend 1. Gorman North 2. Benelabri area 3. EL7223 Watermark buy-back area 4. EL6505 Caroona buy-back area 5. Coolah South 6. Giants Creek 7. State Significant Development application SSD5156 - Rocky Hill 8. Wollar 9. Doyles Creek area 10. Hawkins 11. Rumker 12. Ganguddy-Kelgoola 13. Wollombi Note: This map only covers the Sydney, Gunnedah and Gloucester Basins, where most of the coal in NSW is present. There are small amounts of regulatory prohibitions relating to coal exploration and mining in NSW. coal present in other regions of NSW. This map does not affect existing