Macmahon Holdings, a contracting group operating in the civil construction and mining sector, is a finalist in the 5th Annual Australian Mining Prospect Awards.
Greyhound Australia has won BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam 2008 Vendor of the Year Award.
A key industry consortium has described as “staggering” the impending demand for infrastructure in South Australia and deemed essential that its early development proceeds if the State is to fuel the prospective mining boom for at least the next two decades.
The expansion of Olympic Dam has helped put the South Australian mining industry on the map.
BHP Billiton is inviting South Australian suppliers to learn how they can bid for contracts with the Olympic Dam Expansion Project.
MACMAHON Holdings Limited has won a long term mining contract for the new Sinclair Nickel Project owned by Jubilee Mines, and an extension to its existing Olympic Dam underground development contract for BHP Billiton.
GREYHOUND Australia has become the sole carrier for miners at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine.
BHP Billiton reports that a fatality has occurred at the Olympic Dam Operation in northern South Australia.
FOR the second consecutive year, both a Sandvik Mining and Construction apprentice and a supervisor have picked up apprentice awards at South Australia’s Olympic Dam from specialist training company Career Employment Group (CEG).
BHP Billiton has adopted VULCAN for the Olympic Dam Expansion project (ODX) in South Australia’s far north. This project will be the largest open pit mining operation in Australia, rivalling BHP Billiton’s giant Escondida copper mine in northern Chile, which also uses VULCAN.