Tag: Mining

As the world’s largest democracy, one of its fast-growing economies, and with a population of 1.3 billion people, India is a difficult market for Australian exporters to ignore.

Drone company Emesent is taking pilotless aircraft to new heights, with autonomous technology allowing miners to access unchartered spaces, and defence forces to survey unnoticed. After working together with the CSIRO on projects involving large organisations such as Boeing and Queensland Government, Founders Stefan Hrabar and Farid Kendoul used a combination of SLAM technologies and […]

The work is out there to be done and the skills are out there to do it; but tradies are struggling to find jobs and businesses are struggling to find labour. Why? This is what one-time electrician, Steve Daw, calls the ‘trade hole’: “I’ve experienced first-hand the struggle to find reliable workers at the last […]

A renowned US economist has endorsed a pessimistic outlook for the Australian economy over the next 12 months, warning of a Chinese slowdown, halting GDP growth and a 20 per cent drop in the value of the Australian dollar.  Roubini Global Economics, founded by Dr Nouriel Roubini, has warned that a tight federal budget, lower […]

The Australian Mines and Metals Association (AMMA) has urged the Federal government to invest in training, skills, and employment initiatives to ensure the sector can reach its workforce needs.

Perhaps in a last ditch effort to jump on the dwindling mining boom, a new 2013 list of the most in demand employers is dominated by resources sector companies.

Australia’s economic conditions are predicted by some to take a downward turn in 2013, meaning employers large and small are growing anxious about an economic slump and the potential for China’s growth to go into reverse.

Employer confidence remains strong despite a predicted drop in sentiment over the July-September 2011 quarter, with just under a third of employers set to grow staff numbers over the next three months.

ICON Engineering has won a $5.5 million contract from Chevron Australia for the Western Australian company to build a Compensated Tension Lift Frame (CTLF) for use during the upcoming drilling and completion programme for the Gorgon Project.

Australia’s mining industry is driving an increase in job advertisements in the past six months, with job ads in the sector up almost 30 percent in the industry.