The announcement of job losses and redundancies at the Drayton mine near Muswellbrook in the Hunter demonstrates the human cost of the broken planning system in NSW, according to the NSW Minerals...
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A range of new air quality tests and studies will take place in the Lower Hunter of NSW in response to community concern, the NSW government announced today. The new initiatives include additional...
The downturn in Australia’s mining boom has taken a chunk out of some mining workers’ pay packets, according to a survey of safety and environmental workers conducted by safesearch. The...
Eligibility for the NSW Government’s Resources for Regions program should be extended to more towns so that more NSW mining communities can share the benefits, according to the NSW Minerals Council...
New export data shows China’s demand for NSW coal has increased significantly over the last financial year, cementing its place as the second largest market for the state’s coal exports and defying...
A worker has been crushed to death at Newcrest’s Telfer gold and copper mine in the Pilbara, WA. The accident happened yesterday morning around 9.30am and is believed to have occurred near a...
A contractor has been crushed to death by a coal truck at Glencore’s Ravensworth open cut mine in the Hunter Valley near Singleton in NSW. Operations at the mine were immediately shut down...
The expansion of the coal seam gas industry is firmly in the sights of freshly minted federal Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane, with NSW farmers the first to receive a visit from the Queensland MP...
Sovereign Gold claims they have struck a new giant gold system at its Mount Adrah gold project, near Wagga Wagga, following the release of final drill results from the first drill hole. Latest assays...
A new silver mine may soon open up in NSW with Kingsate Consolidated moving to deliver an environmental assessment for the Bowden Silver project as early as 2014. The announcement was made at the...
