Queensland is home to the new underground mine safety training facility owned by SkillsTech Australia. This state of the art facility is located at the Lennon Underground Mine Safety Training Gallery in Eagle Farm. It will simulate the underground mining environment in order to teach real life safety measures to students. Mary Campbell, director of [ Read More ]
The Queensland Resource Council has slammed Greenpeace after a group of activists boarded a stationary coal ship in the Coral Sea early this morning. Six Greenpeace activists boarded the ship in protest of Australia’s coal mining industry. Speaking to the Guardian from on board the ship, 34-year-old Greenpeace activist Emma Giles said: “We’ve taken the [ Read More ]
All coal leaving in train cars from billionaire Clive Palmer’s prospective China First Coal Mine located in central Queensland will have to be covered. This is a significant change that comes after original plans were approved. The coordinator-general of Queensland has requested a supplementary environmental impact study (EIS) from Waratah Coal on the $8.1 billion [ Read More ]
An interesting news story hit the major outlets recently about a major mining company potentially having the desire to build a mine in a small town and the town’s council asking for $100million in return for the approval to do so. (read one of the many versions of the news story here) What’s Your Initial [ Read More ]
The Sunshine Coast Council has announced that they are currently having discussions with a number of airlines and mining companies (currently unnamed) about an additional FIFO services as well as increased employment of Sunshine Coast residents. This comes after Rio Tinto (through Skytrans) increase their FIFO services to four times a week. As things are [ Read More ]
Mackay based mining service provider Mastermyne Group is looking to Poland to fill 900 new coal miners for positions in both NSW and QLD mines. A spokesperson for recruitment company Randstad, on behalf of their client Mastermyne Group, told AFP: “This is a large-scale project running over three years. Our Australian client aims to recruit [ Read More ]
For the last couple of weeks, since we heard the announcement of the QLD Mining And Gas Jobs expos, we were getting excited about covering the event, chatting with some of the major employers and training providers on your behalf and being able to provide a good overview of the event – for all those [ Read More ]
In response to the ‘proposed 38,000 new mining jobs‘ and also in an effort to make sure that the majority of these positions are filled by Queenslanders, the Queensland Government (in conjunction with local councils and major employers) is hosting a series of 1 day mining and gas jobs expos around the state. What Is [ Read More ]
SkillsTech Australia, one of the states leading TAFE institutes with over 20,000 students, has had over $200 million committed to it from the Queensland Government for the development of its facilities after Premier Bligh’s announcement of the ‘Resource 101‘ courses aimed at fast tracking new employees into QLD mining jobs. This news comes alongside the [ Read More ]
