Clive Palmer company reapplies for mine four times size of Adani's Carmichael

Exclusive: public notice on proposal was placed in classifieds of paper in Queensland town of Emerald

A Clive Palmer-controlled company has applied for a mining lease and environmental authority to build a massive coalmine four times the size of Adani's in the Queensland Galilee Basin.

The Galilee Coal project - formerly called China First - has not progressed since it gained federal environmental approval in late 2013.