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News Item QR divides as coal haulage contract war continues
QR formally split in two, on July 1st, with the newly-separated freight company, QR National, wasting no time in announcing a revised $250 million coal haulage ...
News Item DBCT bullish on future coal volumes
Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal owner Prime Infrastructure is aiming to double its coal export volumes in coming years on the back of improved infrastructure ...
News Item Rio Tinto approves funding for iron ore expansion
Rio Tinto announced, on July 14th, US$200 million funding to prepare for the expansion of its iron ore operations in Western Australia.
News Item Indian demand may boost Australian coal exports
Australia's buoyant coal industry has received another positive signal that any extra export volumes will be eagerly snapped up by international buyers, ...
News Item Conveying specialist teams up with US rubber maker
Kinder & Co has announced a supply agreement with one of America’s leading custom industrial rubber manufacturers, Bi-State Rubber Inc.
News Item Coal industry says rail bid ‘ticks all the boxes’ but AMWU disagrees
The Queensland Coal Industry Rail Group’s $4.85 billion cash offer for the central Queensland coal track network ‘ticks all the boxes’ according to the ...
News Item Karara contracts and orders approach $1 billion
Gindalbie Metals has announced the Karara Iron Ore Project will reach a key milestone in coming months with the value of service contracts and orders expected ...
News Item China tapped for $11 billion resources investment
China is to pour about $11 billion into Australia's port, rail and mining projects in a deal signed on June 21st by Prime minister Kevin Rudd and China’s vice ...
News Item Mineral Resources signs rail haulage agreement
Mineral Resources Limited (MRL) has signed an agreement for the provision of rail haulage for its Carina Yilgarn iron ore project in Western Australia with QR ...
News Item Budget based on “heroic” mining assumptions: BIS Shrapnel
Industry analyst and economic forecaster, BIS Shrapnel, has questioned Treasury’s outlook for engineering construction in the 2010/11 Commonwealth Budget.
News Item Karara rail line project moves towards construction
Construction of another major iron ore railway in Western Australia’s Mid-West has moved a step closer with the introduction to State Parliament of the Railway ...
News Item QR divestment – the case for a different model
The Queensland Resources Council’s Michael Roche spoken at a recent industry event about the need for industry to have more of a say in the ownership of QR's ...
News Item ACCC announcement on problem coal terminal
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has made a draft decision to move coal capacity from Barney Point, due to community concerns about ...
News Item Coal export bottlenecks 'costing millions'
The record bottlenecks at Australia's coal export terminals are incurring millions in demurrage costs and the loss of millions of tonnes of coal exports as ...
News Item QR on track for huge iron ore deal in WA
QR is on the way to winning a 10-year haulage deal with Gindalbie Metals, which could see QR Freight haul iron ore from the Karara minesite to the port of ...
News Item Setback for civil construction during 2010/11
Civil construction activity is set to decline six per cent during 2010/11, despite the recent commencement of large projects, according to industry analyst and ...
News Item Darwin port faces copper contamination inquiry
The Port of Darwin Corporation is seeking to limit the fallout from reports of copper concentrate fouling East Arm Wharf waters and the port area, after the ...
News Item Green light for QR's Northern Missing Link
The Queensland Government and the state's coal miners put aside their QR privatisation differences with the go-ahead given to the $1.1bn expansion of ...
News Item John Holland completes $52m Abbot Point shiploader
On March 1st, John Holland reached a major project milestone in Queensland, with the completion of the Abbot Point X50 Shiploader SL2 project, on behalf of ...
News Item ACCC backs junior iron ore push for rail access
Australia’s competition regulator has thrown its support behind a group of junior iron ore producers looking to collectively bargain for access to the rail ...
News Item New deepwater port and industrial precinct for the Pilbara
The Government of Western Australia has identified Anketell, 30km east of Karratha and 10km from Cape Lambert, as the next major deepwater iron ore port for ...
News Item Industry bid for QR coal sale ignored by Premier
Queensland coal producers will work together and bid for ownership of QR’s coal rail network in central Queensland, believing that privatisation is not in the ...
News Item NT-QLD slurry pipeline options for Phosphate Australia
Australia’s next phosphate mine could be exporting up to three million tonnes of high-grade rock phosphate through a pipeline, following the results of a ...
News Item PWCS to boost annual coal exports to 133m tonnes
Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) will embark on its most expensive expansion in more than a decade in a bid to keep pace with surging demand for coal through ...
News Item China now Rio Tinto's biggest customer
China became Rio Tinto's biggest export market in 2009, emphasising the mining giant's increased dependence on the resource-hungry nation's continued demand ...
News Item Momentum building for Oakajee development
The developer of the multi-billion dollar Oakajee port and rail project in Western Australia’s mid-west said it is on target to deliver the State’s largest ...
News Item Coal hauls Asciano back into the black
Coal haulage has helped bring Asciano out of the red with the rail and ports operator posting a net profit after tax of $79 million for the first half of the ...
News Item Don’t lock industry out of QR sale: QRC
Queensland’s $40 billion a year coal industry should not be dismissed by the state government as a potential investor in the planned privatisation of QR’s coal ...
News Item Newcastle sets coal export record in December
The port of Newcastle shipped a record of almost 52 million tonnes of cargo in the six months to December thanks largely to coal, according to data released on ...
News Item Europeans to investigate BHP-Rio iron ore tie-up
Brussels competition authorities opened an antitrust investigation on January 25th into the $129bn Pilbara iron ore production joint venture between BHP ...