Western Australia’s Department of Mines and Petroleum has excluded access to the Pinnacles and desert areas in response to a request by Westranch Holdings Pty Ltd to amend its Mid West...
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Significant reform in workplace relations is critical if Australia’s resource industry is to reclaim its place as the top global destination for billions of dollars in major project investment...
In a world-first milestone, the first cargo of liquified natural gas (LNG) from BG Group’s QCLNG facility on Curtis Island near Gladstone was loaded on a tanker last week, ready for export...
A peak mining body is calling for unions to “stop being treated as a protected species” and to be “subject to the same standards and penalties as corporations”, after the...
Workers at the Roy Hill mine construction site in the Pilbara were rocked by news this week that a piece of fruit at the site canteen was found to be laced with cyanide. The disturbing discovery was...
Research by the University of Eastern Finland has found that using broad-leaved trees such as willow trees in the phytoremediation of contaminated soils constitutes a cost-efficient method for...
The Transport Workers Union called a ‘stop work’ meeting yesterday in Singleton to discuss stalled pay and conditions negotiations with mining contractor Orica Explosives. Most of the...
NSW Mines Safety is holding a series of info sessions for anyone thinking of applying for a production manager certificate of competence. The information sessions are open to anyone interested in...
Woodside has snapped up Apache’s share of the Wheatstone LNG and Balnaves oil interests off the coast of Western Australia, along with their Kitimat LNG project in Canada, for the measly sum...
Coming hot on the heels of a similar ‘speed up’ agreement drafted in South Australia last week, public comment is now being sought on an agreement between the federal and NSW governments...
Protesters have hijacked the first train load of coal to leave Maules Creek coal mine last night, starting with a 58 year-old-man locking himself to the train. A further group of 22 fellow...
University researchers claim to have developed a new ‘high-entropy’ metal alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than any other existing metal material. High-entropy alloys are...
