Resource industry employer group, AMMA, launched a scathing attack on Australian trade unions late yesterday after an article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald claiming “The Abbott...
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Jetstar has announced it will begin direct flights between the Gold Coast and mining hub town Mackay, at the same time as the company reduces flights between Mackay and Brisbane. The direct flights...
Aurukun’s much-hyped bauxite mine on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula will not be going ahead after the State Government announced last night that both development proposals for the...
Blackwater woman Leah Ross has been awarded the Queensland Resources Council’s Resources Award for Women in the Operator category. Leah was Thiess Australia Mining’s first female dozer and excavator...
Santos was issued with a $1500 fine on February 18 after a leaking storage pond at their Pilliga coal seam gas site in NSW was found to be contaminated with uranium at levels 20 times higher than...
The head of BHP told a gathering of industry heavyweights in the US that over 70 per cent of the world’s energy will still be supplied by oil, gas and coal by 2030 and that while gas will be the...
An open letter from Stewart Bell, Queensland Commissioner for Mine Safety and Health 2013-14 shaping up to be a dangerous year for mining contractors. It doesn’t have to be. Eight people have died...
High wages are jeopardizing the future of major energy projects, pushing companies to choose lower-wage economies, such as Canada and a few African nations, gas explorer and producer QGC warned...
Independent mines could power the future of mine development in the Bowen Basin, as two of Queensland’s future coal producers told a crowd of over 200 industry suppliers and contractors last Friday...
Two mine workers were lucky to escape with only minor injuries when a loader collided with the light vehicle they were travelling in at NSW underground mine late last year. A safety alert issued by...
