CSIRO and its industry partners plan to trial the Direct Injection Carbon Engine (DICE) in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, the second largest and lowest cost brown coal resource in the world, with...
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Victoria’s Nowa Nowa Iron Project in East Gippsland was granted an official mining lease on Tuesday by the Department of State Development, Business and Innovation. The Nowa Nowa Iron Project...
BHP Billiton officially opened its new Jimblebar iron ore mine yesterday, 40 kilometres east of Newman in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. BHP Billiton President Iron Ore Jimmy Wilson, was...
NSW could be missing out on up to 40,000 jobs in the resources sector due to the State’s policies surrounding natural gas extraction, according to Australia’s peak gas industry body, the APPEA. In a...
The driver of a dozer that slide into a waterlogged test hole at Bengalla Mine late last year, was not aware of the danger due to the fact that the hole was unmarked and that water from heavy rain...
60 per cent of women in mining don’t report discrimination for fear their claims will not be taken seriously by their male superior, according to new research just released. The report, by...
A preference for employing temporary workers is an emerging trend in the Australian resources sector, according to the latest Hays Quarterly Hotspots report that lists the skills currently most in...
Australia has entered into a Nuclear Cooperation Agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which is expected to open up new sales opportunities for this country’s uranium sector. Minister...
Two men have died overnight after a wall collapsed in an underground coal mine in the Hunter Valley of NSW, trapping the two workers. The tragic incident occurred at around 9pm last night at...
The silent majority of Australians who support coal can now have a voice through a new pro-coal industry website, according to site developers The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA). The MCA claims...
A combination of local and global pressures could see the number of domestic insolvencies increase significantly over the next 12-24 months, particularly in the mining services sector according to...
Rio Tinto has achieved record production levels for the first quarter of 2014 thanks to iron ore productivity gains in the Pilbara and increased bauxite production in Queensland’s far north...