A favourable Land Court ruling has paved the way for Ausmex to progress its Golden Mile project near Cloncurry. An update to the market authorised by managing director Aaron Day described the planned transition to gold production at Golden Mile and the Mount Freda tenements a...
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The proponents behind the $1.7 billion CopperString 2.0 project have welcomed reforms to extend the reach and life of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF). CuString chief executive officer Joseph O’Brien said the company was well advanced in its discussions for what was expected to be NAIF’s largest loan. “The government’s review identified some reforms to make NAIF more ef...
A Queensland company has been banned from tendering for Federal Government work for one month and a second company received a formal warning after Australian Building and Construction Commission investigations. Industrial Relations Minister Michaela Cash has issued a one-month exclusion sanction against MCP (AUS) Pty Ltd. It comes after a mobile concrete pump truck with a 60m boom toppled w...
Updates from Sandvik, Alice Queen, Ampol, Austin Engineering, State Gas and Central Petroleum in this week’s exploration, mining and processing briefs. State Gas spuds first Rougemont well State Gas is drilling the first well in its new Rolleston-West gas project (ATP 2062), near Rolleston in the Surat Basin. The Rougemont-1 well is the first of two planned wells being drilled to eva...
The inquiry into the destruction of Indigenous heritage sites at Juukan Gorge is turning its spotlight on Queensland. The inquiry by the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia will be examining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage legislation in Queensland, with a public hearing by video conference on Tuesday (May 18). Representatives of the Australian Heritage S...
Early results from an ongoing drilling campaign at Camel Creek have highlighted the potential for a substantial gold project, Great Northern Minerals says. The first 24 holes returned with outstanding intersections and pointed to deeper and higher grade mineralisation at the North Queenkland site. “This ongoing drill program has returned the best assay results ever seen at Camel Creek and h...
Jemena has awarded Queensland-based Wasco Australia the construction contract for a $15 million expansion of the Roma North gas processing facility. Jemena executive general manager of gas markets Antoon Boey said the project would also see businesses from the Maranoa region providing more than $500,000 worth of goods and services such as accommodation, meals, and transport. “This project w...
The lack of affordable housing will be one of the main items on the agenda when western Queensland councillors and State and Federal government representatives meet in Richmond this week. More than 180 delegates from the region will gather over three days from Monday (May 17) for the 2021 Western Queensland Alliance of Councils Assembly. WQAC was formed about 12 months ago and brings togeth...
With Australian commodities such as coal already facing Chinese import restrictions, could its LNG projects be next in Beijing’s crosshairs? Wood Mackenzie Asia Pacific vice chair Gavin Thompson said the potential for the dispute to impact Australian LNG exports to China was becoming clearer. He was commenting after the recent announcement by China’s National Development and Reform Commiss...
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