Energy Skills Queensland’s (ESQ) 2013 Heartbeat Report for the mining industry has identified younger and more diversified workers than ever before with significant recruitment challenges in coming...
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Queensland’s mining sector is experiencing a shortage of electrical trades people, diesel fitters, mechanical engineers and operators/drivers, according to a new government report on vocational...
New figures released yesterday indicate that the mining industry continues to underpin the Australian economy with the production phase of the boom gathering momentum. Minister for Industry Ian...
Mining industry contractors and suppliers are being urged to enter the only awards in Australia designed to put the spotlight on their essential contribution to the sector. Jodie Currie, director of...
Late last year, with just two weeks left before the calendar clicked over to 2014, Queensland Curtis LNG’s 540km pipeline transported coal seam gas to their newly constructed LNG refinery near...
According to the APPEA (The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association), it is now vitally important the Australian Government focuses on the development of Eastern Australia’s gas...
[hr]Groundwater can be both a curse and a saviour for mining companies as they engineer ways of extracting Australia’s mineral wealth in a sustainable way.[hr] Access to a plentiful groundwater...
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...
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...
