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Five New Railway Tracks To Ease Coal Train Congestion in Hunter Valley

Coal train derails in Queensland

The Newlands coal line is set to reopen at 6pm tonight after a coking coal train derailed on September 11. An Aurizon spokesperson confirmed that last Sunday at 7.30am, a derailment of a loaded...

Contractor killed at CQ mine

A 55-year-old man was fatally injured at Glencore’s Newlands coal mine, near Glenden, on Tuesday morning. The contractor was conducting maintenance work at the site’s coal handling and...

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Aussie mining companies smash Top 40

Australian mining companies have remained at the top of PwC’s annual Mine report into the performance of the world’s 40 largest mining companies. BHP Billiton was in the top spot...

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Glencore to close Tahmoor mine by 2019

Glencore has announced they will close its Tahmoor coal mine by 2019, a move the CFMEU has called a “massive kick in the guts”. The mining company said in a statement the decision to...

Two dead, five missing in Glencore mine accident

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...

Glencore to cut 180 jobs from Collinsville mine

Glencore has announced they will cut 180 jobs at Collinsville coal mine by March next year The company said they commenced consultation last week with its Collinsville workforce over further steps to...

Glencore to sell Cobar copper mine

Glencore has announced the commencement of a process to sell its wholly-owned Cobar copper mine in central western New South Wales. A statement from the company said the sale is in response to...

Hundreds of jobs lost as Glencore suspends operations

Glencore has announced today a 500,000 tonne reduction of contained zinc metal mine production across its operations, which will see more than 500 jobs cuts from its Australian mines. The Lady...

Glencore halts production at West Wallsend coal mine

Glencore has confirmed that production at its New South Wales West Wallsend underground coal mine has been halted due to “geological issues experienced on the current longwall operation last...