Resources Projects
The NSW Government has approved Xstrata Coal's expansion plans for its Narama and Ravensworth Coal Mines within the Ravensworth Mining Complex.
The NSW Department of Planning has approved the extension of two underground mining projects north-west of Singleton.
BHP Billiton has awarded LogiCamms Limited a $10 million multidiscipline contract to deliver a new process facility at Olympic Dam at Roxby Downs, South Australia.
NRW has been awarded a contract to undertake preliminary works for the Middlemount Coal Project in Queensland.
FQM Nickel Australia has awarded Forge Group subsidiary Cimeco the structural, mechanical and process piping installation and electrical and instrumentation works for its Ravensthorpe Project.
GDF SUEZ Bonaparte, operator of the Bonaparte LNG project, has awarded upstream and midstream contracts for pre‐Front End Engineering and Design.
The South Australian Government has declared the proposed Sheep Hill deepwater bulk commodities export port on Eyre Peninsula a major project.
Minerals explorer Minotaur Exploration will proceed to a feasibility study on plans to develop a kaolin deposit at Streaky Bay in South Australia.
The Queensland Coordinator-General signed off on 11 reports in 2010 for projects worth a total of roughly $69.
WA Premier Colin Barnett has given the official go-ahead to the first stage of Rio Tinto's $3.