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The operator of Ballarat's last remaining gold mine has gone into administration after a string of setbacks in production. Union organisers were hopeful there would be no job losses as a result of ...
The Ballarat Gold Mine has received approval to develop an open-air waste storage facility following a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal hearing. The mine's current tailings storage ...
Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. The Victorian government is pursuing criminal charges against the former owner of the Ballarat gold mine for unpaid ...
An Australian gold mine where a miner was killed in a partial collapse last month has admitted it failed to lodge a $4m bond for environmental rehabilitation. Balmaine Gold, which owns the ...
Ownership of the long-established gold miner, which runs Ballarat’s last gold mine, has only just changed hands, after the company’s financial demise early last year under its previous ...
It was in that mine, half a kilometre underground, that Mr Hourigan lost his life. The Ballarat Gold Mine where Kurt Hourigan died. Picture: Ian Wilson Crews managed to pull his colleague ...
Ballarat Gold Mine, in regional Victoria, reopened Friday, the day after the body of a worker killed in an underground rockfall was recovered. The swift resumption of operations underscores the ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The man who died in the Ballarat gold mine collapse has been remembered as a loving father of four. Kurt Hourigan, a 37-year-old ...
Victoria’s peak body representing miners wants an overhaul of operations at Ballarat Gold Mine where a father was killed and a 21-year-old man was critically injured last week. Kurt Hourigan and ...
Australian Workers' Union Victoria state secretary Ronnie Hayden says workplace manslaughter charges should be laid after a miner was crushed in a Ballarat goldmine collapse. Source: AAP / Con ...