THE AGE: Australian taxpayers will lend $US100 million ($110.6 million) to a mining joint-venture run by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto in Chile, under the latest funding deal by Australia’s...
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Employees of Leightons could soon find themselves out of work, with Leighton’s majority shareholder, Hochtief, announcing an extensive review that was likely to lead to job losses throughout...
Last Friday the NSW Minerals Council released a Blueprint for Mental Health and Wellbeing, providing a high level guide to addressing the mental health and wellbeing of employees in the state’s...
By Randall Cox and Sanjeeve Pandey BACKGROUND The coal seam gas (CSG) industry is expanding rapidly in the Surat and Bowen Basins of Queensland. CSG production involves pumping water from the coal...
Rio Tinto yesterday launched a world-first, state-of-the-art facility in Brisbane that processes data in real time from seven Rio Tinto operations spread across the globe. The Processing Excellence...
Resource industry employer group, AMMA, launched a scathing attack on Australian trade unions late yesterday after an article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald claiming “The Abbott...
Western Australia’s resources sector has been identified in the Fraser Institute Survey of Mining Companies 2013 as the world’s top-rated jurisdiction for investment attractiveness With a score of 85...
Aurukun’s much-hyped bauxite mine on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula will not be going ahead after the State Government announced last night that both development proposals for the...
Western Australia’s mineral and petroleum sector reached a new record value of $113.8billion during 2013, breaking the previous record of $108billion set in 2011. Mines and Petroleum Minister...
Santos was issued with a $1500 fine on February 18 after a leaking storage pond at their Pilliga coal seam gas site in NSW was found to be contaminated with uranium at levels 20 times higher than...
[hr] Like a lindworm, the flightless dragon of Norse legend, the conveyor belt snakes out of the tunnel at the end of the Valle del Choapa. It is a dragon that devours mountains. Never-ending heaps...
The head of BHP told a gathering of industry heavyweights in the US that over 70 per cent of the world’s energy will still be supplied by oil, gas and coal by 2030 and that while gas will be the...