Queensland
Xstrata has approved the start of an $47m pre-feasibility study into the development of a large multi-commodity open pit mine on its existing Mount Isa Mines footprint.
QR National is on track to complete a major $195m capital project six months ahead of schedule.
Conquest Mining has secured a $100m financing offer from Macquarie Bank to fund the construction of its Mount Carlton gold, silver and copper project in Queensland.
Regardless of the fact that Santos is spending $10,000 a minute setting up its massive coal-seam gas operation in Queensland, chief executive David Knox has ruled out using legal action to explore or mine land against the wishes of the property owner.
Australia’s second largest sugar milling company Mackay Sugar has awarded G&S Engineering a $14 million contract for part construction of a co-generation plant in northern Queensland.
Engineering group Monadelphous has secured major maintenance and construction contracts in Queensland worth a total of $250 million.
An international consortium has been awarded the front-end (FEED) contract for the Arrow LNG project on Curtis Island off the coast of Gladstone.
Tenders for the architectural design and engineering components of the $36 million Cairns City Place project are now expected to called by the end of year according to a spokesman for the Department of Transport and Main Roads.
QGC Pty Limited, developer of the Queensland Curtis LNG Project, will invest more than $60m on up to 100 houses in the Western Downs and Gladstone.
A major builder has been awarded a $57 million contract to deliver 1300 modular accommodation units in the Surat Basin region.
