Authorities are examining whether a lifting accident involving a heavy vehicle killed a resources employee. Investigators are trying to determine whether anti-two blocking devices could have...
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A former resources executive appealed against a court ruling against him over dozens of employee fatalities at a coal operation. Donald Blankenship recently tried to overturn a conviction in relation...
A large volume of Australian coal has been released from Chinese ports. Fengkuang Coal Logistics (FCL) confirmed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently freed 5.6 million tonnes of coking coal...
A global engineering and infrastructure advisory firm will focus on stability says the firm’s global head who will stay on. Giam Swiegers believes his time is not up yet as Aurecon’s...
India was ranked as the fourth-largest energy consumer in the world in 2011, following China, the United States, and Russia. India’s dependence on imported fossil fuels rose to 38% in 2012...
A new report from the CSIRO, finds greenhouse gas emissions from Australian coal seam gas (CSG) production wells to be very low, especially when compared to the United States. The report, Field...
The lack of mineral exploration currently being conducted in Queensland’s north west could prove disastrous for the state in the very near future, according to the head of the Queensland Resources...
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...
China has launched its first lunar rover to explore the surface of the moon, hoping —among other objectives— to discover significant deposits of rare earth minerals said to lay under the celestial...
Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion has welcomed Apache Energy’s decision to farm-in to several petroleum titles in the Canning Basin, which are estimated to hold significant oil and natural...

