Queensland

New Century Resources has announced that its first zinc concentrate shipment to China from the recently restarted Century mine in Queensland is set for the end of October.

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has awarded Wisely Group with a three-year maintenance contract at the Blackwater coal mine in the Bowen Basin, Queensland.

Newcrest Mining has commenced Tier 1 drilling at a highly prospective IOCG (iron ore-copper-gold) target in Cloncurry, Queensland.

Coronado Global Resources, the largest coking coal producer in the US, has announced an IPO expected to raise between $1.16–$1.39 billion in one of the biggest Australian mining floats since Yancoal’s listing as Yancoal Australia in 2012.

Metro Mining has shipped one million tonnes (Mt) of bauxite from its Bauxite Hills mine north of Weipa on Western Cape York, five months since the commencement of mining operations.

Adani has submitted a conceptual operating plan to initiate the connection of its planned narrow gauge rail line to the Carmichael coal project in Queensland.

Mount Isa Mayor Joyce McCulloch believes the prohibitive costs of northern Australia’s ‘infrastructure trifecta’ of energy, transport and water requires revision to avoid turning away investment from the region.

Several Year 11 and 12 students from Biloela and Moura in Queensland are to take part in an immersive trade careers camp set up by Anglo American and the Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy (QMEA).

Rio Tinto’s Amrun Chith export facility team, McConnell Dowell, Bechtel and Jacobs, have won a Queensland Civil Contractors Federation (CCF) Earth Award for its civil construction.

Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode powders produced at Lithium Australia’s subsidiary VSPC will be tested by battery-cell makers in China in the coming fortnight.

New Century has announced that zinc concentrate is now being delivered via the company’s recently developed slurry pipeline to the Karumba Port Facility for export.

Waratah Coal chairman Clive Palmer has launched a proposal to create a new 700MW coal-fired power station in the Galilee Basin, Queensland in association with his company’s Galilee Coal project.

Minnovare and Evolution Mining have embarked on a successful technology collaboration at the Cracow gold mine in Queensland that has reduced dilution by an average 62 per cent.

Pembroke has achieved a major step toward developing its $1 billion Olive Downs coking coal project in the Bowen Basin in Queensland with the release of its environmental impact statement (EIS) for public comment.

Lithium Australia has announces that the VSPC pilot plant operated by fully-owned subsidiary Lithium Australia NL will be recommissioned tomorrow.

OZ Minerals and Minotaur Exploration are to expand exploration activity at the Eloise joint venture (JV) in Queensland.

Evolution Mining has entered into an earn-in joint venture agreement with Andromeda Metals over the latter’s Drummond exploration project in north Queensland.

New Century Resources has entered into a $40 million debt facility with NAB for expansion funding of its Century zinc mine, 250km northwest of Mt Isa, Queensland.

The National Group recently welcomed the first roll-on, roll-off (RORO) vessel, VIking Destiny, at the Port of Mackay in Queensland.

The mining sector has responded to the recent change in Australia’s leadership, which sees Scott Morrison’s appointment as Prime Minister.