Late yesterday, BHP Billiton made the expected announcement that the company would split, with a new company created to manage a selection of under-performing assets. The company said in a statement...
Tag - MINES
Our mines archive provides information on relevant mines throughout Australia and internationally. Information in our mines archive may extend to aspects of mine production, exploration, development, mine safety.
National Bravery Awards will be given to four miners who used low intensity explosives to reach their trapped co-workers during the 2006 Beaconsfield mine rescue in Tasmania. The work of Scott...
By Cecilia Jamasmie: www.mining.com The recent deaths of nine Western Australian fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers who took their own lives has put the issue of living conditions and depression in the...
The Western Australian government has approved development of a new Resources Safety Bill to further modernise resources industry regulation. Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion said this was...
The head of Queensland’s Resources Council (QRC), Michael Roche, is urging mine employees to make their safety concerns known to supervisors and ‘take it to the top’ if necessary. The plea comes in...
4.5 million litres of slurry poured into a lake in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada last Monday when the wall of a tailings pond at the Mount Polley mine partially collapsed. The...
Mining company Wambo Coal has been fined $13,000 and ordered to pay $24,000 in costs after pleading guilty in the Singleton Centre Local Court to emitting an offensive odour from blast fumes...
A Queensland-based mining company director has been accused of breaching United Nations sanctions over his involvement in a rare earths mining project in the rogue state of North Korea. Dr Louis...
The CFMEU has notified BG Group that the union is planning a strike at the company’s QCLNG plant at Curtis Island near Gladstone this Thursday 7th August. The union – one of the four unions...
North Queensland could soon see it’s first working uranium mine in decades with the state government announcing it’s ready to accept applications for uranium mine projects. Mines Minister...
