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Barminco donates Sandvik UG truck to Perth TAFE students Barminco has donated a Sandvik underground truck to South Metropolitan TAFE in Perth, WA, to help train the next generation of skilled mining and heavy automotive workers. The refurbished truck, worth about $1.8m new, has lived out its full mine life and will now serve as a training resource for plant mechanic apprentices, trainees and students at the Heavy Vehicle Mechanical Training Centre at the Thornlie campus. WA Training Minister Simone McGurk thanks Barminco for its generous donation, which will help train up the mining and heavy automotive workforce of the future. "Providing students with contemporary machinery ensures when they land...

Green light for Queensland phosphate mine The Queensland Government has given the green light to a major phosphate mine in northwest of the State with the granting of mining leases for North West Phosphate’s Paradise South complex. Located 130km northwest of Mount Isa and adjacent to Glencore’s Lady Loretta zinc mine, the complex is expected to create 200 jobs during construction and 245 jobs once operational. Northwest Phosphate executive chairman John Cotter thanks the Queensland Government for their support. “We have worked very closely with the State Government in bringing this very difficult and complex project...

The contract relates to underground development and production stoping from the Beresford and Allanson underground mines, which together comprise the Westralia Mine Area.   BY REUBEN ADAMS    Dacian Gold is on track to be pouring first gold at Mt Morgans within 12 months after conditionally awarding the underground mining contract to WA contractor RUC Cementation Mining (RUC).   The conditional Letter of Intent relates to underground development and production stoping from the Beresford and Allanson underground mines, which together comprise the Westralia Mine Area. The contract – initially 3 years with two discretionary 1 year extensions – includes establishment of a new portal for Beresford; rehabilitation of the existing Allanson portal and decline; all decline and level development; all...

CME & King support WA Gov lithium move Industry leaders have come out in support of the WA Government’s relief package for the State’s lithium producers. This comes as the Federal Government introduced a bill this week to provide up to $17b in production tax incentives for the critical minerals and rare earths industry as part of its Future Made in Australia agenda. Both the Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA (CME WA) and Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King welcomed the announcement, with the peak body’s chief executive Rebecca Tomkinson saying lithium prices...