The remaining 550 workers at Clive Palmer’s Townsville nickel refinery will be sacked at close of business tomorrow. Administrator FTI Consulting said in a statement that it had no choice but...
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Five workers are missing after a geotechnical failure at Glencore’s Katanga mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday. The failure occurred on the north wall of the KOV open pit mine...
A key Queensland mining health and safety body has welcomed its first female members: two highly-qualified mining engineers. Minister for State Development and Minister for Natural Resources and...
Methane emissions are one of the major concerns surrounding coal seam gas. But we should also be paying attention to other sources of methane, in particular those from coal mining. By dealing with...
A new report released by Construction Skills Queensland and the Queensland Major Contractors Association shows that major project activity is forecast to reach its floor in 2016/17 and then return to...
The CFMEU has predicted that 16 per cent of coal mine workers will have the deadly black lung as it is revealed that hundreds of thousands of x-rays have not been processed. The respiratory disease...
On this International Women’s Day, employers across Australia’s male-dominated resource industry now have a practical tool to implement greater flexible work arrangements in their workplaces and thus...
Australian mining heiress Gina Rinehart has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia. The Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill chairperson was...
The Australian government continues to claim that coal will play a vital role in bringing cheap energy to developing nations. In particular, it’s claimed India’s poor will benefit from the...
Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion paid tribute to fallen miners at an annual commemorative service on Saturday at the Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial. “It is important we never...
