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UNDERMANAGER - ILLAWARRA COAL
(Saturday, 3 May 2008)

ILLAWARRA COAL – A leading coking coal supplier with over 1000 employees, three underground mines, two processing plants and a logistics chain. Illawarra Coal offers rewarding careers combined with an unrivalled beachside lifestyle.
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MINE PROFILES 
Coming of age: Mandalong
(Monday, 5 May 2008)

HAVING cut its teeth on narrower panels, Mandalong is now reaching for 5Mtpa output with its wider 150m face and additional equipment from closed sister mine Newstan. By Angie Bahr
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MORE MINE PROFILES

Pike strives for summit


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MINE ACTIVITY 
Coming of age: Mandalong
(Monday, 5 May 2008)

HAVING cut its teeth on narrower panels, Mandalong is now reaching for 5Mtpa output with its wider 150m face and additional equipment from closed sister mine Newstan. By Angie Bahr
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MORE MINE ACTIVITY

CMM milestone at JWR mine


$30m to speed mine development


Buchanan rock falls hit Consol’s bottom line


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COAL COMPANY ACTIVITY 
Western Canadian in the money
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

VANCOUVER-based operator Western Canadian Coal has negotiated an average price exceeding $US300 per tonne for the majority of its 2008 coal year contracts.
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MORE COAL COMPANY ACTIVITY

Peabody to double profits


Revenues, income both up for NRP


Patriot mines receive safety honours


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OEM/SUPPLIER ACTIVITY 
Bucyrus new staple retainer to improve longwall safety
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

BUCYRUS Australia has designed a unique product – the Bucyrus Staple Retainer – to improve the safety and stability of longwall staples.
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MORE OEM/SUPPLIER ACTIVITY

Gemcom acquisition gains approval


Phoenix First Response unveils new lab


Jennmar acquires Commonwealth Bolt


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EQUIPMENT 
ACT's Starfish has legs
(Wednesday, 7 May 2008)

AN UPGRADE for the ActiveMine wireless communications system is now available, allowing miners isolated from each other in an accident to communicate, even when cut off from the rest of the world.
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R & D 
Shotcrete saviour
(Friday, 9 May 2008)

A NEW method of testing shotcrete could not only increase roadway development rates and re-entry time into mines following a ground control failure, but could also change the very guidelines that underground coal mines abide by in Australia.
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MORE R & D

ACARP grants target welfare, profits


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SAFETY AND HEALTH 
Patriot mines receive safety honours
(Friday, 9 May 2008)

ONE underground mine, one surface operation and one preparation facility owned by producer Patriot Coal have each received a safety performance award for 2007 from the Joseph A Holmes Safety Association.
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MORE SAFETY AND HEALTH

Massey at fault for Mammoth: MSHA


Ground zero: moving towards ultimate safety


Contrary cars under review


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ENVIRONMENT 
BHP concerned over Rivers of Shame ‘misinformation’
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

BHP Billiton's Illawarra Coal has expressed concern over information about longwall mining presented in the Rivers SOS movie Rivers of Shame 2, presented in New South Wales' Parliament last week.
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MORE ENVIRONMENT

Clean coal projects get boost in Vic budget


Victoria ups clean coal investment


Responses to regulations seek benefit for all and the environment


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EDUCATION 
SME 2009 call for papers open
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

THE Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration has announced the date for its 2009 annual meeting and has opened a call for papers to be presented at the event.
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MORE EDUCATION

Fundamentals of geotechnical engineering explained


Pathways to a better workforce


Minerals Education: Institutions and Courses


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Revved up for diesel development
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

IMPROVING diesel exhaust emissions, operator ergonomics and modularity is fast advancing as diesel equipment manufacturers seek to provide ever safer and more comfortable machines.
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Little Toby fatalgram released
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

THE US Mine Safety and Health Administration has released a series of best practices for mines to maintain safe operation after a pinning accident that killed one worker at a Pennsylvania operation last month.
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Abbot points towards 50Mtpa
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

THE BOOST in capacity from 15 million tonnes per annum to 21Mtpa of Australia’s most northerly port last year not only represented the start of major expansions at the Abbot Point Coal Terminal, but also a significant engineering achievement.
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   CURRENT FOCUS FEATURES

Skills shortage & recruitment

Pathways to a better workforce

Thank you gifts from the boss

Staffing it down

Minerals Education: Institutions and Courses

Maximising IT to solve skills shortage

Tackling the skills shortage head-on

Thiess calls for more diversity in industry workforce

Safety first

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UPCOMING FOCUS FEATURES

JUNE : QUEENSLAND MINING & ENGINEERING EXHIBITION PREVIEW
JULY : ROADWAY DEVELOPMENT, TRENDS & EQUIPMENT
AUGUST : MINEXPO PREVIEW

   TODAY'S STORIES CONTINUED


Western Canadian in the money
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

VANCOUVER-based operator Western Canadian Coal has negotiated an average price exceeding $US300 per tonne for the majority of its 2008 coal year contracts.
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Bucyrus new staple retainer to improve longwall safety
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

BUCYRUS Australia has designed a unique product – the Bucyrus Staple Retainer – to improve the safety and stability of longwall staples.
Full Story...


BHP concerned over Rivers of Shame ‘misinformation’
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

BHP Billiton's Illawarra Coal has expressed concern over information about longwall mining presented in the Rivers SOS movie Rivers of Shame 2, presented in New South Wales' Parliament last week.
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Mining giant has money for the little guys
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

XSTRATA has committed $3 million over three years to help the Environmental Protection Agency ensure the survival of Australia's second most endangered mammal – the northern hairy-nosed wombat.
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Black Beauty gets a facelift
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

PEABODY Energy's Black Beauty Coal and Arclar Company have come to an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency to create new wetlands in Indiana where the companies discharged without a permit.
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SME 2009 call for papers open
(Monday, 12 May 2008)

THE Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration has announced the date for its 2009 annual meeting and has opened a call for papers to be presented at the event.
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Shotcrete saviour
(Friday, 9 May 2008)

A NEW method of testing shotcrete could not only increase roadway development rates and re-entry time into mines following a ground control failure, but could also change the very guidelines that underground coal mines abide by in Australia.
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Qld legislates for resources action
(Friday, 9 May 2008)

AN OLD legal loophole that has allowed a small company to sit on an undeveloped coal resource for more than 13 years has finally been closed up by the Queensland Government, which is eyeing the rich royalties it will receive when the resource is finally mined.
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The Next Big Thing
(Friday, 9 May 2008)

POWER! Whether it comes from coal, oil, gas, nuclear or geothermal doesn’t really matter, because if you’re looking for “the next big thing” in the resources world it is actually one of the oldest and most indispensable: electric power. By Tim Treadgold
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Peabody to double profits
(Friday, 9 May 2008)

PEABODY Energy expects to double its profits in 2008, with its Australian operations alone anticipated to earn as much as Peabody's record results last year.
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