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Newcrest Mining Limited is Australia’s largest gold producer and in the top 4 globally. With a market capitalisation of around A billion, Newcrest is in the Top 15 on the Australian Securities Exchange. Our workforce of over 10000 is based in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and West Africa.
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Save Point Lowly demonstrators protest at the the “Gowth at all costs” mining conference at the Middleback Theatre in Whyalla South Australia. Protestors want the Point Lowly peninsula left as a pristine environment for recreation, tourism and for future generations. They are resisting the the South Australian governments push to turn the area into an industrial wasteland. Report from Central GTS BKN News on the 4th of December 2009
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On the 26th September 2005 the Coal River Working Party drilled into the early convict coal mines of Newcastle Australia. This is the birthplace of the Australian Coal Mining Industry. Video by Bob Cook. For more info: www.newcastle.edu.au Blog: coalriver.wordpress.com
Keep the video annotations on, some of the writing is a bit hard to read. Just some helpful tips and suggestions for anyone who may be trying to get into the Australian mining industry. This is the basics of what I did to get my first job in the mines. I apologise if this seems slightly all over the place, but I get a bit scatter-brained when it comes to doing things like this. I’ll try to do a bit of a follow-up on what to expect if/when you get a job.