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Offline GSK33

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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2010, 07:47:09 AM »
Opencut Coal Mine, Moura, QLD, 16 years.
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2010, 09:29:14 AM »
I work for a mining construction company. Been to St Ives, Emily Anne, Sunrise Dam, Olympic Dam, Catalpa. Currently doing design drawings for Cosmos Nickel, Catalpa and a few others. Easier to stay in office now
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #27 on: December 13, 2010, 06:32:04 PM »
Had a sneaking suspicion there'd be a few on here........... where would we all be without the mining industry in Aus?

Good stuff, keep 'em coming.
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #28 on: December 13, 2010, 06:42:01 PM »
I grew up in mining towns - does that count  ??? Dad is a metallurgist.

Weipa (Qld) until I was about five (Comalco/Bauxite) then Rosebery (Tas) until I started high school (E.Z.). I'm pretty sure those company's have since been taken over and rebadged/renamed.
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #29 on: December 13, 2010, 10:35:28 PM »
Underground coal mines....around the Newcastle area for the last 35yrs !!
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #30 on: December 13, 2010, 10:57:33 PM »
Quote from: Barrabart on December 13, 2010, 06:32:04 PM
Had a sneaking suspicion there'd be a few on here........... where would we all be without the mining industry in Aus?

Good stuff, keep 'em coming.

You mean where will we all be when we run out of stuff to mine.
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #31 on: December 14, 2010, 12:13:02 AM »
Underground Hard Rock
Peak Gold Cobar NSW
CSA Cobar NSW
Endeavor Cobar NSW
Perilya Broken Hill NSW
Was working for Cavpower CAT dealer was with them for 6 years all up in the mines above.

Open Cut Coal Mines
Burton Coal QLD
South Walker QLD
BMA Black water QLD
BMA Goonyella riverside QLD
Curragh north QLD
And lots more was working for Liebherr they make big diggers did 100000KM in brand new Landcruiser ute in under 2 years thats why i left them never home accedent waiting to happen and the speeding fines  :police: went back to Broken Hill home every night to see the wife and little boy.
Just moved back to Mackay still looking for work but not going back to mines they can bring there gear to me to work on. ;D
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #32 on: December 14, 2010, 12:37:04 AM »
Past 5 years at Moranbah North Mine - Underground Coal mine.
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #33 on: December 14, 2010, 03:55:16 AM »
- Exploration drilling for many of the BHP mines in the Bowen Basin Qld. (A.C.E. Drilling & Mitchell Drilling).
- Exploration drilling in the Hunter Valley Mines (Mitchell Drilling).
- Last eight years at Mt. Arthur Coal.
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #34 on: December 14, 2010, 04:50:25 AM »
8 years in almost all of the Rio Tinto mines in the Bowen Basin.
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #35 on: December 14, 2010, 03:24:21 PM »
hi all,

started apprenticeship at Rio's Ranger Uranium Mine NT
since then, been to.....

Collingwood underground tin mine, cooktown QLD
Rio/Alcan, Gove NT
Phosphate Hill, near Mt Isa QLD
Grass Tree Underground coal mine, Middlemount QLD
Broadlea Coal, near Coppabella QLD
Goonyella/Riverside, Moranbah QLD
Saraji Coal mine, Dysart QLD
Peak Downs Mine, Moranbah QLD

and currently at Sonoma Coal, Collinsville QLD

been around a bit but thats the game i'm in :)
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #36 on: December 14, 2010, 03:55:30 PM »
I've never been a mine worker, but I am an exploration geologist and have been to many, many of the mines you guys have mentioned.

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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #37 on: December 14, 2010, 06:05:10 PM »
Hello fellow Myswaggers, I thought that I would throw in my Two Bobs worth , Not a complete list but after 35 years plus in the industry and still going one is bound to forget some names and places.
                                                                                           Underground Hard Rock
Wolfram Camp-QLD
Mini Moxim -QLD
The Granites- Bullakitichie/Shoe and Callie- NT
Gympie Eldorado Gold - Gympie- QLD
CSA Cobar -NSW
Stawell Gold Mine  -VIC                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Perilya Broken Hill-NSW
Cannington -QLD
George Fisher/Hilton Mt Isa -QLD
Collingwood underground tin mine- Cooktown- QLD
Pajingo Gold Mine,- Charters Towers-QLD
Kagara Zinc- Mt Garnet- QLD

Surface Open Cut
Croyden Gold Project –QLD
Red Dome Gold – QLD
Yandan Gold - QLD
Mt Hogan Gold – QLD
Georgetown Gold – QLD
Zinifex/OZ Minerals (Started Century Mine ) Went back 2007-QLD


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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #38 on: December 14, 2010, 06:12:34 PM »
What sort of work do you do in the pits Duggie, that's a big list even for 35 yrs.
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #39 on: December 14, 2010, 06:30:25 PM »
Hi Gunna Do ,
Drill and Blast, either contract shotfirer or supervisor. I get the wander lust every 12 to 14 months or so. Shotfirers like to get their rocks off daily.
Duggie
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #40 on: December 14, 2010, 06:39:57 PM »
Just hope you don't blow it.   ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #41 on: December 14, 2010, 10:27:03 PM »
duggie - pls come here and replace the imbeciles we have drilling for us


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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #42 on: December 15, 2010, 12:45:05 AM »
as my good wife has said earlier im at cobar. i spent 2yrs with a contractor working at endeavor mine, csa, and peak gold mine. All in Cobar as a fitter and all underground, but have spent the last 1yr and a bit employed at csa as an u/g fixed plant fitter as you can see im only new to the game but so far im still having fun  ;D ;D Scott
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #43 on: December 15, 2010, 08:29:04 AM »
Mainly based at Century for last 4.5 years , also do stints at Collinsville Coal if needed there.
were you at now Duggie ?
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #44 on: December 15, 2010, 05:56:38 PM »
Hi homerj,
Shift Boss at Kagara Zinc underground in Mt Garnet.
Duggie
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #45 on: December 15, 2010, 06:37:26 PM »
Work experience at the Tanami
Then after TAFE got a job at the Granites Gold Mine for a bit (Tanami Desert again)
after that Norseman (CNGC then Croesus)
and now looking after kids and cleaning houses :(

Husband has worked at the above and then some...waaay too many for me to keep track of, but we've moved from Alice to Norseman to Perth to Darwin to Townsville to Cobar and now back to WA to finally settle a bit.
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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #46 on: December 15, 2010, 07:53:07 PM »
I've been going to PT Freeport Indonesia (copper & gold) both open pit & underground and also PT Newmont (copper & gold) open pit. Generally worked throughout Indonesia for the past 10 years.

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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #47 on: December 15, 2010, 09:54:45 PM »

Ten years in the drilling industry as a Driller and Drilling Supervisor, throughout various mines in the West, to many to mention.
last 4 years in Port Hedland as sub contractor, Running and maintaining Dewatering Programme at FMG.

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Re: Mine Workers.
« Reply #48 on: December 15, 2010, 10:37:57 PM »
Quote from: geoffnvi on December 15, 2010, 07:53:07 PM
I've been going to PT Freeport Indonesia (copper & gold) both open pit & underground and also PT Newmont (copper & gold) open pit. Generally worked throughout Indonesia for the past 10 years.

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The have some of the biggest haul trucks at Freeport... Davo used to work for a Engineering Company in Brisbane, who were refurbishing all of their hydraulic rams and suspension rods

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« Reply #49 on: December 16, 2010, 08:24:55 AM »
Freeport is a huge operation I haven't been up to Grasberg for over a year now so it would only be getting bigger. Its an incredible place up there. They were moving around 700 000 tons of dirt a day.

Being a contractor I get to see a lot of places. I could list all the sites that I have worked at but it would take up way to much time. One nice advantage of the job is I get to see the a fair part of the world.

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