How mining could ignite Australia’s green hydrogen boom 2

Most of these emissions are from the use of fossil gas in the production of ammonia, with further emissions from the production of nitric acid. [...] The proposed CSBP plant expansion provides a timely and pivotal moment for miners to catalyse change and drive the adoption of green ammonia in Australian mining and the emergence of a green hydrogen industry. [...] How mining could ignite Australia’s green hydrogen boom 14 water supplies, and the distance to export ports and energy markets.49 Part of Australia’s National Hydrogen Strategy includes the development of regional hydrogen hubs to cluster large-scale demand, with these regions covering existing ammonia production facilities in the Pilbara and Kwinana in Western Australia (WA); the Hunter Valley in. [...] Australian miners can play a critical role in decarbonising the ammonia value chain Half of Australia’s ammonia is used to produce explosives and could be decarbonised first Roughly 0.43 tonnes of ammonia are needed per tonne of ammonium nitrate, which suggests that 1.1Mt of ammonia are required to support the manufacture of Australia’s 2.65Mt of ammonium nitrate.80 Given that Australia’s ammonium. [...] Among Australia’s major mining companies – such as BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue – Scope 3 emissions constitute 95%-99% of the overall emissions inventory, with the majority originating from the downstream use and processing of sold products such as the burning of coal or the production of iron and steel.