An emerging mineral producer significantly improved worker remuneration. Whitehaven Coal recently offered its employees a $20,000 pay rise at the Maules Creek coal mine in Boggabri, 127km northwest...
Category - New South Wales
A resources employee became covered in tonnes of material at an operation. A Komatsu PC350 excavator operator was recently buried alive at an undisclosed open-cut coal mine. The worker had tried to...
A faulty stopping device is likely to have caused an underground employee fatality. Authorities recently examined circumstances surrounding a mine worker who was unresponsive and died on 28 April...
A national contractor failed to maintain a safe employment environment, killing a team member on the job. Hansen Yuncken recently entered into an enforceable undertaking after two large steel pipes...
Authorities are examining circumstances surrounding a missing resources employee’s fatality. Investigators recently confirmed a worker was unresponsive and died that same day at a mine site...
Dozens of anti-mining demonstrators were detained after delaying fossil fuel operations. Climate change protestors were recently arrested for trespassing and stopping a coal train for four hours near...
An operator discovered trucks can roll away even when a stop device is engaged. An unoccupied fuel truck recently descended 8 metres and crashed into a mobile stacker despite the park brake already...
A mothballed coal development is expected to resume operations within months. Australian Pacific Coal (AQC) recently confirmed it would reopen its Dartbrook Coal Project (122km northwest of...
Authorities terminated an informant who accused some resources approvals of being unlawful. Rebecca Connor was dismissed from her mining titles operations manager job, after complaining about the New...
An industrial relations watchdog recently gave the nod to terminate mine employees who opt not to relocate. BHP Operations Services (OS MCAP) was within its legal rights to dismiss resources workers...
CSE Corporation and Coal Mines Technical Services (CMTS) are pleased to announce that they have entered into a strategic agreement to better serve industries in New South Wales and Queensland. This...
A multinational conglomerate will be the next majority owner of a coal operation in Queensland’s Central Highlands region. The Sungela joint venture (JV) recently acquired Idemitsu’s 85...
