Global energy and metals information provider, Platts, has launched the world’s first daily metallurgical coal assessments to address miners’ and steel mills’ needs for independent data in the burgeoning Asian market.

Big, bold and bright pink, CQMS Razer’s 150th Earth Eater dragline bucket joined more than 1,000 residents and 150 industry representatives from across the Bowen Basin in the name of charity.

The Western Australia Government has been warned to “put on ice” any pre-Budget aspirations to impose higher royalties on the State’s massive $72 billion plus per annum production value from its resources sector.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have long played a vital role in the mining industry. Visualisation and accessibility of information is paramount to effective decision making.