State-run media has indicated in the clearest terms yet that Chinese authorities are limiting coal imports. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) revealed it is lifting customs restrictions on coal...
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A mining giant has been accused of using outsourcing to avoid paying for essential work equipment, performance-related bonuses, and even travel to and from work. Several Operations Services (OS)...
A multinational resources company has been instructed to pay for controversially blowing up ancient rock shelters as part of a metal mine expansion. The Northern Australia Parliamentary Committee has...
Speculation is growing that one of the world’s largest mineral producers could exit its Australian coal operations. Peabody Energy has decided to take “aggressive actions” to cut...
Authorities cut an anti-coal demonstration short after two protestors locked themselves onto machinery at the nation’s most northerly deepwater port. Queensland Police officers arrested Frontline...
Anti-mining protestors wreaked havoc at a $21 billion coal development by locking themselves to machinery at the nation’s most northerly deepwater port. Frontline Action on Coal activists...
Interstate fly-in fly-out (FIFO) travel has been suspended for almost a week due to a viral outbreak in South Australia. No FIFO mine workers will be allowed to enter the Festival State for six days...
A significant fall in commodity prices has forced a multinational coal producer to downsize its workforce. The Glencore-Yancoal Joint Venture has confirmed it will retrench several contract workers...
A multinational resources company will go back to the drawing board after the industrial relations watchdog rejected pay and work conditions for outsourced employees. The Fair Work Commission has...
New data suggests Mainland China has been preparing to reduce its coal uptake for at least a year, fuelling speculation the communist country might ban coal imported from Australia. The latest...
A multinational resources company has been accused of deliberately deteriorating work conditions to discourage labour hire workers from staying on at a coal operation in New South Wales’ Upper...
A $21 billion coal development has been forced to postpone building infrastructure because an anti-mining activist decided to lock himself onto a plant in Central Queensland’s Galilee Basin...
