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Tasmanian sand mine bid to include 700m jetty in the north-east
By Emily Smith and Laurissa Smith

An upcoming proposal to mine millions of tonnes of sand for export from Tasmania's largest farm triggers concern from Aboriginal groups.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/tas-sand-mine-at-rushy-lagoon-proposal-jetty/107141680

#MiningandMetalsIndustry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousRepresentativeBodies #EmilySmith #LaurissaSmith

Tasmanian sand mine bid to include 700m jetty in the north-east
By Emily Smith and Laurissa Smith

An upcoming proposal to mine millions of tonnes of sand for export from Tasmania's largest farm triggers concern from Aboriginal groups.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/tas-sand-mine-at-rushy-lagoon-proposal-jetty/107141680

#MiningandMetalsIndustry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousRepresentativeBodies #EmilySmith #LaurissaSmith

Tasmanian sand mine bid to include 700m jetty in the north-east
By Emily Smith and Laurissa Smith

An upcoming proposal to mine millions of tonnes of sand for export from Tasmania's largest farm triggers concern from Aboriginal groups.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/tas-sand-mine-at-rushy-lagoon-proposal-jetty/107141680

#MiningandMetalsIndustry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousRepresentativeBodies #EmilySmith #LaurissaSmith

Tasmanian sand mine bid to include 700m jetty in the north-east
By Emily Smith and Laurissa Smith

An upcoming proposal to mine millions of tonnes of sand for export from Tasmania's largest farm triggers concern from Aboriginal groups.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/tas-sand-mine-at-rushy-lagoon-proposal-jetty/107141680

#MiningandMetalsIndustry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousRepresentativeBodies #EmilySmith #LaurissaSmith

Tasmanian sand mine bid to include 700m jetty in the north-east
By Emily Smith and Laurissa Smith

An upcoming proposal to mine millions of tonnes of sand for export from Tasmania's largest farm triggers concern from Aboriginal groups.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/tas-sand-mine-at-rushy-lagoon-proposal-jetty/107141680

#MiningandMetalsIndustry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousRepresentativeBodies #EmilySmith #LaurissaSmith

Mining safety regulator warns against 'unprecedented' vapes in mines
By Jacob Gamble and Meghan Dansie

Resources Safety and Health Queensland is investigating an unprecedented number of reports of contraband being brought into coalmines.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/contraband-vape-warning-for-coal-mines/107142456

#MiningAccidentsandIncidents #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Work #JacobGamble #MeghanDansie

Mining safety regulator warns against 'unprecedented' vapes in mines
By Jacob Gamble and Meghan Dansie

Resources Safety and Health Queensland is investigating an unprecedented number of reports of contraband being brought into coalmines.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/contraband-vape-warning-for-coal-mines/107142456

#MiningAccidentsandIncidents #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Work #JacobGamble #MeghanDansie

Mining safety regulator warns against 'unprecedented' vapes in mines
By Jacob Gamble and Meghan Dansie

Resources Safety and Health Queensland is investigating an unprecedented number of reports of contraband being brought into coalmines.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/contraband-vape-warning-for-coal-mines/107142456

#MiningAccidentsandIncidents #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Work #JacobGamble #MeghanDansie

Mining safety regulator warns against 'unprecedented' vapes in mines
By Jacob Gamble and Meghan Dansie

Resources Safety and Health Queensland is investigating an unprecedented number of reports of contraband being brought into coalmines.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/contraband-vape-warning-for-coal-mines/107142456

#MiningAccidentsandIncidents #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Work #JacobGamble #MeghanDansie

Mining safety regulator warns against 'unprecedented' vapes in mines
By Jacob Gamble and Meghan Dansie

Resources Safety and Health Queensland is investigating an unprecedented number of reports of contraband being brought into coalmines.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/contraband-vape-warning-for-coal-mines/107142456

#MiningAccidentsandIncidents #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Work #JacobGamble #MeghanDansie

BHP subsidiary class action begins over public holiday work
By Liam O'Connell

The class action alleges that a BHP subsidiary did not offer workers a reasonable chance to apply for leave over public holidays.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/bhp-os-action-public-holidays/107140208

#MiningandMetalsIndustry #Courts #LiamOConnell

'Grossly inadequate': NT traditional owners plan to mandate mine rehabilitation
By Jane Bardon

Traditional owners in the NT want to see more money put aside for the rehabilitation of closed mines and are considering making it a requirement of any agreement established between mine companies and traditional owners.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-03/nt-mine-remediation-bonds-traditional-owners-nathan-river/107107412

#MiningandMetalsIndustry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #IndigenousAustralians #LandRights #JaneBardon

Revived NT mine to join Australia's modern gold rush
By Jane Bardon

Chinese-financed company Hanking Gold is reviving the mothballed Mount Bundy mine south of Darwin, with the soaring gold price prompting predictions of profit from its first year of production.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/nt-mount-bundy-mine-revival-amid-high-gold-prices/107029606

#MiningandMetalsIndustry #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #JaneBardon

BHP and unions both claim wins after weekend strike action
By Kimberley Putland and Alistair Bates

BHP's Port Hedland operations just faced 48 hours of industrial action, but how much of an impact did it have?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/unions-bhp-assess-impact-strike-action-port-hedland/107014096

#IndustrialAction #Unions #MiningandMetalsIndustry #IronOre #KimberleyPutland #AlistairBates

Mining cities concerned census fails to count FIFO 'ghost population'
By Jarrod Lucas, Ivo da Silva, Mikki Cusack, and Kimberley Putland

Mining cities across Australia say the count fails to acknowledge the increasing pressure the nation's growing fly-in fly-out workforce puts on communities.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/fifo-ghost-population-worries-mining-cities-census/106950408

#Census #MiningandMetalsIndustry #EmploymentStatistics #RegionalCommunities #FederalGovernment #JarrodLucas #IvodaSilva #MikkiCusack #KimberleyPutland

NT chief minister's Garma town promise on land rights anniversary
By Matt Garrick

Lia Finocchiaro uses her first Garma Festival speech to promise land and fuel security in north-east Arnhem Land after its main employer, Rio Tinto, leaves town.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/lia-finocchiaro-rio-tinto-gove-peninsula-garma-mining/106980606

#IndigenousAustralians #CommunityandCulturalEvents #MiningandMetalsIndustry #CommunityandSociety #GovernmentandPolitics #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #IndigenousPolicy #Industry #MattGarrick

Unions confirm new 24-hour strike against BHP
By Kimberley Putland

Unions have given notice to BHP of another planned work stoppage at the miner's Port Hedland operations in Western Australia, this time lasting 24 hours.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/ports-unions-give-bhp-notice-of-24-hour-strike-in-port-hedland/106977222

#Unions #MiningandMetalsIndustry #IndustrialAction #KimberleyPutland

Solar is cheap, but building enough of it can be difficult
By Nathan Morris

Australia is the world’s biggest iron ore exporter, but the Australian Renewable Energy Agency says ultra-low-cost solar could make it a green iron superpower.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/turning-to-robots-to-build-australian-solar-future/106917752

#RenewableEnergy #SolarEnergy #ElectricityProductionandDistribution #Infrastructure #Robotics #IronOre #Steel #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Exports #NathanMorris

Workers waiting a year for entitlements from GFG may never be paid
By Arj Ganesan

Jun Samonte has spent 14 years working for the same Whyalla business. He now fears he will never receive the $53,000 he is owed in entitlements, despite already waiting a year.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-11/whyalla-liquidated-companies-gfg-ferretti-workers-pay-sa/106897886

#Manufacturing #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Steel #MiningandMetalsIndustry #ArjGanesan