A mine contractor has been found dead in his room at the Red October accommodation camp near Laverton on Western Australia’s Goldfields. A statement released late yesterday by mine owner...
Tag - MINING
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit. These deposits form a mineralized package that is of economic interest to the miner.
Ores recovered by include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstones, limestone, chalk, dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel, and clay. Mining is required to obtain any material that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a laboratory or factory. Mining in a wider sense includes extraction of any non-renewable resource such as petroleum, natural gas, or even water.
AMSJ provides information on a wide range of practices, news, articles and case studies associated with mining.
A group of protesters illegally entered the Whitehaven mine site at Maules Creek in NSW earlier this month and cut 187 down-lines attached to explosives, according to the NSW Minerals Council. The...
A former mine project manager from Mackay has told a court his dangerous drug addiction started after being forced by his employer to sack 51 mine workers, including the Best Man and Groomsman from...
Yesterday’s repeal of the Mining Resources Rent Tax (Mining Tax) by the federal Senate has been whole-heartedly welcomed by Australia’s biggest resources industry groups, with the tax...
The Pilbara Iron Company has been charged in relation to the death of a mine worker in 2011 by the Western Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP). Mr Brent Glew died on 16 August 2011...
Glencore has today been announced as the government’s Preferred Proponent to develop the Aurukun bauxite deposit in Western Cape York. Deputy Premier, Jeff Seeney, said since the Government’s...
Do you know how many of your employees have diabetes? Do you know if your workplace helps or hinders them in managing their condition – or even preventing it in the first place? At the coming APPEA...
An official inquiry into FIFO related suicides in Western Australia has been launched with the WA Education and Health Standing Committee agreeing to the move at a meeting last night. The inquiry...
Maximising renewable energy on a mine site, rapid mapping of oil spill danger zones and the protection of rare flora are among the innovative projects vying for the 2014 Golden Gecko Awards...
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...
