The 2014 Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference is currently in full swing in Townsville with delegates treated to a host of high profile speakers. Rob Neale will tomorrow address...
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.
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...
A pile of burning waste rock at Glencore’s McArthur River Mine is sending plumes of smoke into the air, angering nearby communities in the Gulf of Carpentaria area of the Northern Territory...
