The NSW Government’s strategic statement on coal, released yesterday, provides welcome clarity as to the government’s policy direction on coal mining, according to the NSW Minerals Council. “Today’s...
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Natural gas has surpassed education services to become our third largest export after iron ore and coal, according to the latest data released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The...
Jobs will go at Peabody’s Burton coal mine, south west of Mackay in Queensland, with the company announcing last night that it will reduce metallurgical coal production at the mine by approximately 1...
New estimates by Deloitte Access Economics show that the minerals industry’s revenue contribution from company tax and royalties in the two years to 30 June, 2014 will be $40.3 billion. This is $18.3...
A Queensland-based mining company director has been accused of breaching United Nations sanctions over his involvement in a rare earths mining project in the rogue state of North Korea. Dr Louis...
Latest statistics on NSW coal output show that domestic production and export volumes to international markets grew steadily over the last 12 months, continuing the growth trends of recent years...
Watpac has been awarded a contract with Hanking Gold Mining to provide mining services at its Cornishman Pit, located at the centre of its Southern Cross Operations in Western Australia. With works...
A new report from the CSIRO, finds greenhouse gas emissions from Australian coal seam gas (CSG) production wells to be very low, especially when compared to the United States. The report, Field...
North Queensland could soon see it’s first working uranium mine in decades with the state government announcing it’s ready to accept applications for uranium mine projects. Mines Minister...
Joe Hockey is claiming that the government only received $600,000 from the Minerals Resource Rent Tax for the June 2014 quarter. A statement from the Federal Treasurer’s office says...
Dart Mining will re-start the pre-feasibility study of the Unicorn mine project near Corryong in Victoria’s north east and could potentially have the project up and running by 2019...
Rex Minerals has won state government approval for its proposed $850 million open cut Hillside Copper Project near Ardrossan on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula. The company claims the Hillside...