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More than 6,000 construction workers along with 4,000 ongoing mining jobs and an estimated 15,000 indirect jobs are expected to be generated at BHP Billiton’s expansion at S.A.’s Olympic Dam mine site.
Plans call for building a new town, airport, gas-fired power station, and construction of 105 kilometres of new railway track, electricity transmission lines, water pipelines and a desalination plant. More
A campaign launched April 27 by mining giant Rio Tinto, hopes to fill 6000 vacancies across $22 billion worth of projects either underway or about to begin across the country. About two-thirds of these vacancies are at its 14 West Australian job sites.
This unprecedented campaign is the first of its type and includes a 1300 MINING hotline.
It is believed that most positions need to be filled within the four-month campaign, with many available now. Some candidates will be first in line for jobs as they become available across 30 sites later this year. More
Copper miner CuDeco Ltd has gained State Government approval for its Rocklands mine, 15km west of Cloncurry. It comes after a 30 year mining lease along with rights to process 3 million tonnes of ore a year for 10 years was granted in late 2011.
Construction begins immediately, with the first of the buildings expecting to arrive in the next week, commencement of stores buildings, heavy vehicle workshops, roadways, ROM pad, dams, creek diversion etc, to commence within the next month. CuDeco plans to award contracts to local Cloncurry-based businesses for concreting, storage buildings and other facilities. A development permit for construction of a ship loader and concentrate storage facility at Port of Townsville was issued earlier this month, to load at a rate of 2000 tonnes an hour and house 400,000 tonnes of concentrate. More
Defence Minister Stephen Smith has urged the mining sector to have its say in setting the rules for mining access in the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) in the north of South Australia.
The federal government has released a deed of access for public comment and resource industry engagement is critical to interim arrangements alongside defence activities in the area.
Exploration and mining will be allowed in parts of the WPA, which covers 127,000 square kilometres. More
Swiss-owned global mining company Xstrata, has received thumbs up from the Queensland land court for what could be the biggest open cut coal mine in the southern hemisphere.
Found 400 kilometres north west of Brisbane, Xstrata’s Wandoan project faced opposition from graziers and green groups who, on environmental grounds, attempted to stymie plans for the mine. More
In what’s being called an addition to WA’s skills shortage, Gina Rinehart’s $7 billion iron ore mine in the Pilbara will need at least 10,000 workers to achieve operational status.
And in spite of youth unemployment being 19 per cent in the region and going as high as 28 per cent in one area, project operators Roy Hill applied to the federal Enterprise Migration Agreement (EMA) in an effort to make it easier for them to import overseas workers when the time comes. More
The NSW Minerals Council has announced a new network designed to help connect women already in mining and to attract more to the sector.
“The industry is growing and we’re going to need to attract and retain more women to be able to meet the global demand for our minerals in the years to come,” NSW Minerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee said. More
Rio Tinto has plotted strategies that will boost annual production of iron ore in the Pilbara by 58 million tonnes over the next year. Along with expanding existing mines, the plan includes digging new ones.
The company made grounds to reach its goal March 1st as the government gave its stamp on approvals to build a new rail haul line needed to shift the ore, along with a 220-kilovolt electricity transmission line. The project is estimated to be worth more than $400 million and will generate up to 600 jobs.
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The Adani Group says it will employ Australians before foreign workers at its proposed coalmine in the Galilee Basin, north of Emerald.
The Adani Group has purchased a sprawling Moray Downs cattle station, to accommodate the mine and plans to build a new town to support its operations.
Moray Downs sits over about one-third of the total resource in the Galilee Basin. More
More adult apprenticeships will be offered in high-demand trades to help Queenslanders take advantage of the resources boom.
The plan is the result of two mining summits last year.
Premier Anna Bligh has outlined a new plan to help fill a projected 40,000 new jobs in the sector by 2020. More
