The jobs of 117 people have been axed across Cape Lambert Resources’s Western Australian operations in response to plummeting iron ore and commodity prices. Cape Lambert has also reduced...
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In the world of mining, it doesn’t get much bigger than this: The Biggest Open Cast, Hand Dug Mine in the World: The Big Hole of Kimberly, South Africa The Big Hole of Kimberly was dug by hand...
The Department of Industry’s Resources and Energy Quarterly-December Quarter 2014 report has forecast that Australia’s resources and energy export earnings will decline by 10 per cent in...
Mining camps in the Pilbara of Western Australia could soon be a thing of the past if the local MP, Brendon Grylls, has his way. The former leader of the state National Party and Member for Pilbara...
The Coal Services Health & Safety Trust is now inviting applications for grants to fund initiatives designed to improve the health and wellbeing of coal mine workers. Researchers, mine...
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...
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...
