Australia's competition watchdog has cleared global miner BHP Billiton's proposed $144 billion bid for Rio Tinto, after it was agreed that the take-over wouldn’t lessen competition.
The Fosterville Gold Mine Emergency Response Team from Bendigo in Central Victoria, has defeated nine other teams from across the country to win the annual Victorian Underground Mine Rescue Competition held in Bendigo during August.
National transport and logistics company QR Limited has welcomed the arrival of competition in the Queensland coal rail market and reaffirmed it would fiercely defend its market position.
In one of the closest competitions ever, Crinum Mine recently took out top honours in the 2007 Peter Dent Simtars Gas Chromatographer of the Year Competition.
THIESS Pty Ltd and BHP Billiton have teamed up in a $250,000 partnership to support a design competition for first year engineering students.
WESTERN Australian mine rescue teams have put there skills to test in real-life scenarios recently
GOLD Fields St Ives will host this year’s underground mine emergency response competition from 2 to 4 November.
4th Annual Australian Mining Prospect Awards Excellence in Mine OH&S
THE Stawell Gold Mine Rescue Team narrowly defeated nine other teams from across the country to win the prestigious Annual Victorian Underground Mine Rescue Competition, held in Bendigo recently.
University of Queensland (UQ) mining and minerals processing students win the 2007 National Mining Games (NMG’s)