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Two Queensland women have taken out top honours in the Women in Resources National Awards presented by the Minerals Council of Australia today.

Kathryn Young, Geotechnical Engineer at BHP’s Peak Downs Mine in Moranbah took the Newcrest Exceptional Young Woman in Australian Resources Award for her impressive technical leadership, mentoring and strong advocacy on gender diversity.

The Queensland Resources Council has welcomed today’s announcement by the Morrison Government of a multi-pronged plan to develop more Queensland gas for market as part of a Covid-19 recovery.

The Queensland Resources Council is urging the State Government to commit extra funding from its $3 billion COVID-19 stimulus package to a collaborative program to boost exploration for new resource discoveries.

Starting September 1^st, Tobias Bangerter will join the Management Board for BAUER Resources GmbH as a new member, replacing Peter Hingott who has served as Chairman of the Management Board for the past four years alongside his role as member of the Management Board of BAUER AG. At the same time, Dr. Roman Breuer will take over as Chairman of the Management Board.

The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has launched an unprecedented four-week media campaign in the lead-up to the State Election to emphasise the economic and job creation importance of the mining and gas industry to the State’s COVID-19 recovery.

The Queensland Resources Council has welcomed Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s  commitment to strengthen the resources sector’s role in Queensland’s Covid-19 response and recovery.

Cimic Group’s CPB Contractors has been awarded two contracts for resources and water projects located in Western Australia and Queensland.

A Queensland resources industry plan for the Covid-19 recovery will assist keeping Queenslanders in work and get more back into employment, with confirmation today the State’s jobless rate was now the nation’s highest at 8.8%.

Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. today announced its financial results for the period ended June 30, 2020.

“Faced with the challenges of operating within the constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oyu Tolgoi team posted outstanding safety and production performance in the second quarter of 2020. The open pit operations have continued uninterrupted, and the underground development, while experiencing restrictions on workforce numbers and the ability to repatriate specialists from around the world, has continued to progress. The team’s focus on optimization initiatives has resulted in, among other things, an increase to our 2020 gold production guidance.

The Queensland Exploration Council (QEC) has congratulated the 24 mineral exploration companies that have been successful in the latest round of grants totalling nearly $4 million, as part of the Queensland Government Collaborative Exploration Initiative (CEI).

The Queensland Government should mirror key planks of the Western Australian Government’s COVID-19 recovery plan for the Sunshine State’s own economic revival, Queensland Resources Council Chief Executive Ian Macfarlane said.

UGL, a Cimic Group company, has secured new contracts and extensions for maintenance and turnaround services contracts in Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria.

Local businesses across Queensland are receiving a significant financial boost from resources companies with a 16 percent increase in local spending over 12 months.

International trade in Queensland’s resources has stayed consistent with an 80 percent contribution to the total value of the State’s exports of $79.9 billion in the 12 months to May 2020, according to Queensland Treasury’s analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

Metso has been awarded a contract for the design, supply and installation of a railroad car dumper system for CSX Transportation in the USA. The new Twin Cage Tandem Rotary Car Dumper System will be used for the unloading of coal from railroad cars at the CSX Curtis Bay Export Terminal, located in Baltimore, Maryland. The dumper system is expected to be operational in October 2021.

With ore grades declining and cost pressures rising, high-throughput circuits based on very large grinding mills are becoming an increasingly attractive option in mineral concentration applications. The Outotec® Open Ended Discharge Grinding Mill (OED Mill) enables innovative and efficient high-capacity circuit designs through the removal of pulp lifters from the discharge arrangement, facilitating reductions in both CAPEX and OPEX.

The Queensland Resources Council, the peak organisation for the State’s coal, metal and petroleum producers, explorers and suppliers, has welcomed the release of more than 6,700 square kilometres of land in the Surat and Bowen basins between Blackwater and Goondiwindi for gas exploration including domestic-only gas.

The BAUER Group closes the first quarter with a decline in EBIT but very high order backlog. The total Group revenues decreased by 5.0% from EUR 410.9 million to EUR 390.2 million, compared to the same period of the previous year. Sales revenues also dropped by 2.3%, from EUR 341.9 million to EUR 334.0 million. EBIT fell from EUR 10.5 million in the previous year to EUR 6.3 million. Earnings after taxfor the Group were EUR -5.0 million, compared to EUR -5.1 million in the previous year.