A Queensland landholder has been awarded more than $50 million in compensation for a coal mine expansion that will drastically reduce the size of his cattle properties.

James Gorman challenged a Land Court ruling that ordered Bowen Basin miner Pembroke Olive Downs Pty Ltd to compensate him $34.8m for the Olive Downs open cut mine expansion on two of his properties.

In a judgement handed down on Tuesday, Justice Graeme Crow of the Land Appeals Court allowed the appeal and ordered the compensation be increased to more than $52.8 million.

In the judgement, Justice Crow found the calculations used to determine the original compensation did not consider all the variable costs of running and maintaining a sizeable cattle property.

The two properties, Vermont Park and Seloh Nolem, span more t

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