Australian Mining invites editorial contributions and story ideas for its Bowen Basin feature in the July 2009 issue.
02/06/2009
AUSTRALIAN Mining invites editorial contributions and story ideas for its Centenary Feature: Mining in the Bowen Basin 1908 to 2008 in the July 2008 issue. This issue will be the biggest Australian Mining magazine so far this year, as such the editorial deadline has been extended to Friday 13 June 2008.
12/05/2008
Thiess has secured a $260 million contract extension from Wesfarmers Curragh for coal mining and pre-strip overburden removal at its Curragh North Mine located 38 km north of Blackwater in Queensland’s Bowen Basin.
17/09/2008
The Bowen Basin will suffer the full brunt of the Federal Government's proposed CPRS.
05/06/2009
A DOMESTIC flight provider has announced that Rockhampton, Mackay and the Gold Coast would be included in their domestic flight network, with flights to and from Melbourne available from November 23.
17/07/2007
Macmahon Holdings will slash 360 jobs from its coal projects in the Bowen Basin.
28/04/2009
HEAVY rain and record floods across central Queensland's Bowen Basin are now expected to translate into hundreds of millions of dollars in lost coal production, Queensland Resources Council Chief Executive Michael Roche said.
23/01/2008
A 3D model of a mining basin in Central Queensland could help explorers discover more of the untapped potential of the historic mining region, Mines and Energy Minister Geoff Wilson said.
05/08/2008
Thiess has secured a $260 million contract extension from Wesfarmers Curragh for coal mining and pre-strip overburden removal at its Curragh North Mine located 38 km north of Blackwater in Queensland’s Bowen Basin.
17/09/2008
Leighton Mining has been awarded a three-year $300 million contract extension by BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) to continue work at the Peak Downs Mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin.
28/07/2009
THE damage bill from floods and wet weather in central Queensland's Bowen Basin appears certain to cost the export coal industry and the State's economy tens of millions of dollars, according to Queensland Resources Council Chief Executive Michael Roche.
22/01/2008
CQU researchers are keen to help Queensland avoid ‘Dutch disease’ in the wake of a coal boom which could almost double in intensity over the next five years.
19/07/2007
From modest beginning to coal reserve powerhouse, the Bowen Basin has come a long way in a short time. Fran Molloy writes for Australian Mining.
19/06/2008
Cockatoo Coal has bought the Baralaba coal mine located in Queensland's Bowen Basin.
01/12/2008
A STUDY into people management issues in the Bowen Basin’s coalmines has identified a series of resource management challenges facing the region.
19/07/2007
A 3D model of a mining basin in Central Queensland could help explorers discover more of the untapped potential of the historic mining region, according to the Queensland Mines and Energy Minister.
30/07/2008
THE Queensland Mines Inspectorate has issued a safety bulletin after a drill rig operator in the Bowen Basin coalfields suffered sever electrostatic shock after contacting an electrostatically-charged PVC pipe.
11/03/2008
WestSide Corporation has boosted its cash reserves to $28 million in a bid to expand the gas reserves at its Bowen Basin coal seam gas tenements.
06/04/2009
Queensland Transport Minister Rachel Nolan yesterday announced the $49 million duplication of the Blackwater rail system in the Central Bowen Basin had been completed.
23/09/2009
A LARGE mining house has awarded a $75 million dollar contract for a Queensland open cut coal mine.
03/08/2007