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Miner defends its bullying processes amid breach of care allegations
Jellinbah Resources say it is committed to ensuring workers at its mines receive support in the face of bullying amid allegations a woman suffered serious psychological damage due to racial abuse on site.
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Glencore reaches out to Collinsville locals as tensions grow
As tensions continue to simmer in the small Collinsville community as the coal mine remains shut, Glencore have taken an ad out in local papers to “separate fact from fiction”.
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Anglo American serves eviction notice, local post office forced out
Anglo American has served an eviction order on the local post office in Middlemount, Queensland.
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Woman sues Queensland mine for racial and verbal abuse
An Indigenous woman is suing a coal mine in Queensland for over $1 million after claiming racial and verbal abuse, including threats to push her truck off a berm, left her with serious psychological damage.
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Doubts Adani can develop Galilee Basin coal mine slammed by industry
A report commissioned by Greenpeace into the viability of Adani’s position to develop the Galilee Basin coal fields has been slammed by the mining industry.
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Contractors more likely to die on mine sites: report
A report on mining safety in Queensland has shown contractors are more likely to die at work than full-time workers, prompting calls for tighter procedures to be put in place at mine sites.
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Proposed Galilee Basin infrastructure deal to create 1300 jobs
Edging closer to a rail and port solution which will open up Queensland’s Galilee Basin, GVK Hancock today announced it is on the same page as Aurizon, agreeing on a draft infrastructure deal.
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Mining banned on Steve Irwin’s nature reserve, Cape Alumina dump bauxite project
Cape Alumina has suspended all work on its Pisolite Hills mine and port project in Queensland after the state government banned mining over the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve and the Bertiehaugh Cattle Station.
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Miner ditches FIFO in favour of hiring Indigenous workers
Owner of the Great Australian Mine on the outskirts of Cloncurry have switched from a FIFO workforce of 80 per cent to just 20 per cent by deciding to hire locally.
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Rio pleads guilty to environmental breach at red mud dam
Rio Tinto Alcan pleaded guilty in court on Wednesday, admitting it did not have the capacity to deal with flooding which hit its red mud dam at Yarwun in Queensland last year.
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Arrow Energy warns of job losses if CSG ban passes
Arrow Energy said a large portion of its 1300 staff would be lost if legislation to ban coal seam gas activity from prime agricultural land in Queensland passes.
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Doubts raised over CSG well capacity to feed Curtis Island LNG plants
Doubts have been raised over whether Queensland’s coal seam gas fields can produce enough to feed Curtis Island’s LNG export plants, with claims that many wells are not meeting production expectations.
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Mining goes head-to-head with greens groups to tell its story
Hitting back at greens groups, Queensland’s peak mining body is launching a media campaign promoting the importance of port capacity adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Rio offloads two QLD exploration licences
Mining major Rio Tinto has sold off two coal exploration licences in Queensland to explorer Mozambi Coal.
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Gas leak on Rio’s Weipa site, workers evacuated
Workers have been evacuated from Rio Tinto Alcan’s Weipa bauxite operation this morning, after a gas leak was identified.
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Thiess cuts 40 regional jobs
Mining contractor Thiess will cut 40 jobs when it shuts two regional offices in December.
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1100 job applicants vying for 120 QLD coal jobs
New Blair Athol mine owner New Emerald Coal is being inundated with job applications since advertising available positions last week.
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Downer EDI Mining granted anti-discrimination exemption to employ more women
Contractor Downer EDI Mining has secured an exemption from anti-discrimination laws, allowing it to advertise for 50 women-only truck driving positions a year at its Queensland mine sites.
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Linc Energy to divest $440m coal division
Linc Energy has announced it will divest or demerge its coal division in 2014 once it lists on the Singapore Exchange later this year.
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