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Production to restart at Collinsville

One of Queensland’s oldest coal mines at Collinsville is restarting production and hiring again, with up to 200 jobs up for grabs. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Minister for State Development and...

Fifty redundancies as gold mine closes

About 50 underground gold miners are to be made redundant as Norton Gold Fields’ Homestead mine prepares to close by the end of the year. The company was seeking voluntary redundancies from its...

National Safe Work Month launched

National Safe Work Month has been launched to raise awareness about workplace health and safety during the month of October. CEO of Safe Work Australia Michelle Baxter launched 2016 National Safe...

Prominent Hill mine out of action for another week

Electricity transmission to OZ Minerals’ Prominent Hill mine is expected to be progressively restored in the next seven to 10 days, following recent severe storm damage to South Australia’s...

Anglo American to cut 90 workers from coal mine

Up to 90 workers are Anglo American’s German Creek coal mine are expected to be made redundant. The forced redundancies are allegedly not related to ongoing strikes at the Middlemount mine...

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No safe level of coal dust exposure, researchers say

There may not be a safe level of coal dust exposure, University of Melbourne researchers have suggested. Since May last year, Queensland has confirmed 15 cases of Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP)...

TerraCom to buy Blair Athol mine

TerraCom has announced it’s wholly owned subsidiary Orion Mining will purchase the Blair Athol coal mine in Queensland from the Blair Athol coal joint venture (BACJV). At completion of the...