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Black Lung review: Diagnosis missed by doctors

One of the six Queensland miners with a confirmed case of Black Lung was initially misdiagnosed by a doctor, a panel investigating to re-emergence of the deadly lung disease has found. The...

Doctors appointed to tackle black lung

A special group of coal mining medicos will be created to tackle the growing health concerns of Queensland miners surrounding the re-emergence of black lung disease. Minister for State Development...

WA mining students shot in New Orleans

Two Curtin WA School of Mines students have been shot in a drug deal gone wrong at New Orleans. The two men, aged 21 and 23, sustained gunshot wounds after not having money to pay for drugs in a bar...

Court rules against CFMEU in drug testing battle

The Supreme Court of Queensland has dismissed the CFMEU’s application to declare the implementation of a new drug testing regime at BHP BMA’s Goonyella Riverside mine as not lawfully...

Anglo American sells Foxleigh mine

Anglo American has announced the sale of its Foxleigh coal mine in Central Queensland. The company announced on Monday that they had entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement with a consortium led...

CQ miner seeks $2.5m after horrific crash

A Central Queensland mine worker is suing three companies for $2.5 million after receiving brain damage in a car crash. Norwich Park machine operator Harold Kerle was driving home to Monto from a...

Carmichael mining leases approved

Thousands of new jobs in regional Queensland have come a major step closer with approval of the mining leases for the $21.7 billion Carmichael coal mine and rail project in the State’s Galilee Basin...