Waratah Coal has been named Queensland Explorer of the Year at the Mining 2008 conference in Brisbane.
Waratah CEO and President Peter Lynch and Company Chairman Nick Mather accepted the award last night in Brisbane, from the Deputy Director General of the Queensland Department of Mines and Energy, Stuart Booker.
Figure 1: Mr Stuart Booker, Mr Peter [...]
Waratah Coal CEO and President Peter Lynch said today the Company remains firmly committed to its plans for an export coal project in Central Queensland. The Company wants to open up a new thermal coal resource in the Galilee Basin near the Central Queensland town of Alpha. To date exploration by Waratah Coal (CDNX:WCI.V) has [...]
Waratah Coal advises that the Federal Minister for Environment Peter Garrett this afternoon has acted under Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act (EPBC Act) to reject Waratah’s proposal to establish a rail line and coal port in the Shoalwater Bay military training area on the basis that the Minister has purported to rule that the proposal [...]
Waratah Coal announced that it has engaged energy and resources engineering company Worley Parsons as lead consultant and project manager for its proposed A$5.3B mine, rail and port development in Central Queensland, Australia. Waratah Coal President and CEO Peter Lynch said “we are glad to have secured the services of such a highly regarded and [...]
Origin Energy Ltd, Australia’s second biggest electricity and gas retailer, has forecast a stronger second half after delivering a 43.5 per cent increase in interim profit.
The power retailer delivered a half year profit of $334.7 million for the six months to December 31, 2007, compared to $233.1 million in the previous corresponding period.
“Based on current [...]
Russia-based Rusal, which already owns a 20 per cent stake in Gladstone’s Queensland Alumina (QAL), is actively investigating establishing a refinery and smelter in the state as part of its stated expansion plans.
It comes as Russian companies actively increase their presence in Australia, Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works notifying the Federal Government [...]
The Aluminum Corp. of China said Monday it expects to sign a final agreement on a US$2.2 billion bauxite mine and alumina refinery project in northeastern Australia’s Queensland by the end of March.
The company, the world’s second-biggest aluminum producer after U.S.-based Alcoa Inc., already had acquired “preferred developer” status for the Aurukun bauxite deposit.
Plans call [...]
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited (ACN 104 261 887) (“GPNL†or the “Companyâ€) is pleased to report the signing of a binding Heads of Agreement that secures substantial long-term limonite nickel ore supply from New Caledonia. GPNL has entered into the heads of agreement with Société des Mines de la Tontouta (“SMTâ€), a company that owns [...]
