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APPROPRIATE Training in the mining industry is essential to safety as well as efficiency and profitability.
31/07/2009 |
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BARRISTER John Tate has told attendees at a Queensland underground mine safety conference that fatigue is a big problem for the mining industry.
31/07/2009 |
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CSIRO Exploration & Mining Chief Dr Mike McWilliams says that employee health and safety is increasingly recognised as a key benefit by enlightened companies.
30/07/2009 |
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QUEENSLAND has appointed its first Mine Safety and Health Commissioner.
30/07/2009 |
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MINES and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore has assured Western Australians that the government will use the world’s best practise to regulate the state’s uranium sector, following the official signing of a joint venture between Mega Uranium and its Japanese investors.
30/07/2009 |
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PERILAYA has highlighted the safety performance at its Broken Hill mining operations in the June quarter.
29/07/2009 |
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CONSTRUCTION at the Ramu nickel-cobalt mine in Papua New Guinea has been halted by local authorities due to health and safety concerns.
29/07/2009 |
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WORKSAFE Victoria has released a publication titled ‘Emergency Management in the Minerals Resources Sector’ which provides information on emergencies in mines.
28/07/2009 |
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THE QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh has named Stewart Bell as the state’s first independent Mine Safety and Health Commissioner.
28/07/2009 |
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THE CSIRO has tested a dust scrubber for maintaining healthier mine environments.
27/07/2009 |
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MACMAHON says it will continue to provide mine development works at BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine, in South Australia.
27/07/2009 |
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THE UNITED Mine Workers South Western District will open a new miners memorial wall at its Kembla Grange headquarters on 26 July 2009.
23/07/2009 |
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ODT Australis has announced that it has added a new aspect to the company, sign writing.
23/07/2009 |
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NSW Department of Primary Industries director of mine and safety performance Morrison's appeal against a judgment over a mining safety case has begun in the Industrial Relations Commission in Sydney.
22/07/2009 |
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CQUNIVERSITY and the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) have entered a memorandum of understanding whereby the university will work with individual mining companies and the QRC to enhance regional career prospects.
22/07/2009 |
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THE DEPARTMENT of Mines and Petroleum has issued an official safety warning on excavating near cables buried in the ground.
21/07/2009 |
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RESOURCES Minister Martin Ferguson says that uranium mining will inevitably be allowed in Queensland, and should be, as long as it is mined safely.
21/07/2009 |
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UNIONSWA has called for more investigations into workplace accidents.
21/07/2009 |
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THE DEPARTMENT of Mines and Petroleum has released an official safety warning following a fatality after a rock fall during support cycle in a high heading development.
20/07/2009 |
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THE DEPARTMENT of Mines and Petroleum has issued an official safety warning following an incident wherein explosives were misfired during bogging operation.
20/07/2009 |
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MINING executive Nathan Verity has been presumed dead in the Jakarta hotel bombings on 17 July 2009.
20/07/2009 |
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AN OIL rig owned by China's Sinopec Star Petroleum and operated by Denmark's Maersk Drilling has been found to have had asbestos on it.
17/07/2009 |
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RIO Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh says that the allegations in recent media reports that employees were involved in bribery of officials at Chinese steel mills are wholly without foundation.
17/07/2009 |
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GREENS MLC Mark Parnell has described the decision by Environment Minister Peter Garrett to approve the 4 Mile in-situ leaching mine as a deeply disappointing betrayal of South Australia’s environment that will leave a toxic legacy for generations.
16/07/2009 |
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SAFETY concerns over the water in the Blue Mountains are growing with Lithgow doctors heading the cause after reading an article on the subject in the New South Wales Public Health Journal in 2008.
16/07/2009 |
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THE DEPARTMENT of Mines and Petroleum has released an official safety warning following an incident with a crane on a mine site.
15/07/2009 |
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MINECORP Vehicle Solutions have delivered another specialised vehicle to repeat customer Carl Contracting.
15/07/2009 |
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FEDERAL Resources Minister Martin Ferguson says that safety performance in the offshore petroleum industry needs to be improved urgently.
15/07/2009 |
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THE SAFETY of working in the Indonesian province of Papua has come into question following a recent spate of deaths at Freeport mine.
15/07/2009 |
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KINGGEE has developed a Hi Visibility indicator card to improve the safety of workers in the mining industry.
06/07/2009 |
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ENVIRONMENTAL group Cyanide Watch protested Orica's cyanide production outside its Yarwun site on 1 July 2009.
03/07/2009 |
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WESTERN Australia’s mining engineer Martin Knee has ordered BHP Billiton to undertake an independent assessment of the miner’s Leinster operations in a bid to improve safety.
03/07/2009 |
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ENERGY and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor says that the Victorian State Government has launched a new code of practice for small quarries in a bid to streamline regulation and improve safety.
02/07/2009 |
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ENVIRONMENTALISTS are concerned about the safety of extraction processes described in an environmental impact statement for Capital Mining’s proposed Monaro mine in New South Wales.
02/07/2009 |
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TASMANIAN miners have been warned to take extra safety precautions when blasting after two planned explosions caused damage.
02/07/2009 |
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MINES and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore has sought urgent advice from State Mining Engineer Martin Knee as to whether or not BHP Billiton’s Perseverance nickel mine should remain open.
01/07/2009 |