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It’s High Time We Stamp Out Synthetic Drugs

The issue of synthetic drugs in the community is having a trickle-on effect into Queensland’s mining and resources workforces. The National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre clears the haze...

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That’s Quite A Load

With the cargo of wide loads stretching across the width of our rural roads, it is important motorists are aware of oversized etiquette. Graeme Ransley from the Road Accident Action Group discusses...

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Lean & Green

Mine site environmental specialist, Phil Abernethy, explains why environmentally responsible mines can cost less to operate. Mines with good environmental performance really do have lower operating...

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WATCH: AIMEX reveals Faces of Mining

Portraying a day in the life of a miner, the Asia-Pacific International Mining Exhibition (AIMEX) team has released a two-minute documentary ‘Faces of Mining… making it personal’. ...

SA workers learn of operation closure in newspaper

The Augusta Power Station and Leigh Creek Coalmine workforce learnt of their future from the front page of newspaper, The Advertiser. The South Australian workers were hit with a hard blow by the...

Isaac Mayor optimistic about Red Hill Mine approval

Stepping out of the meeting with the State Development and Natural Resources and Mines Minister Dr Anthony Lynham and the Coordinator General this week, Mayor Anne Baker is optimistic the State...

Expo to put spotlight on Surat Basin economies

Surat Basin Energy and Mining Expo organisers are getting ready to showcase of the very latest offerings for all sorts of businesses and industries across the region next week. Event director Bob...

North Queensland power station gets green light

A new $18 million power plant will be built on Palm Island, off Townsville, after being given the go ahead by the Palaszczuk Government. Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

New mine approval to create 3500 jobs in CQ

BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance’s Red Hill Mining project, near Moranbah, will need to make hundreds of jobs available for locals as well as fly-in, fly-out workers under a new independent...

Downer awarded $100 million mining contract with BHP

Downer EDI Ltd announced it has been awarded a contract with BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance for the provision of mining services at the Blackwater coal mine in Central Queensland. The two-year...

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