Managerial

Coffey Mining started nearly 50 years ago as a specialist engineering company.  They now have a range of specialist companies under their umbrella, providing social and physical infrastructure services in more than 80 countries.

With 4,000 employees globally, they are currently seeking skills in civil, environmental, mechanical, geotechnical, structural, mining, electrical, chemical, rail and transport, signalling and communications, and project management.

The Super Pit is managed by Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) on behalf of its joint venture owners Newmont Australia Limited and Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd.

Based in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, the Super Pit produces up to 800,000 ounces of gold every year and its operation outweighs any other gold mining centre in Australia.  At completion, the Super Pit will have reached the following dimensions: 3km long, 1.4km wide and 620m deep.  In addition, the Super Pit will have extracted more than $AU54 billion worth of gold.

Barrick is the world's largest gold mining company and has a portfolio of 27 mining operations, many advanced explorations projects located across five continents and a large number of tenements located on some of the most prolific and prospective mineral trends. 11 of Barrick's mining operations are found within the Australia Pacific region, with its regional head office located in Perth, Western Australia.  Within the Yilgarn Operations Barrick operates four wholly owned Gold Mines in the North Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia producing approx.

As I sit here tonight thinking about what to write that might be of some use to the Job Seekers who are reading this blog, I am also listening to Ben Cousins! Being interviewed before the game  - Richmond v Carlton... Gosh, he is even appearing in a Blog on Mineblogger!... but I tell you what, talk about well prepared, planned responses - but not too rehearsed, focussed with his answers....

This week we welcome the Chamber of Minerals and Energy (CME) WA to Mineblogger with their information about their June Conference, to be held in Perth - "Unearthing People for the Future".

There are a significant number of opportunities available with the following companies:

Clough are very well known and established in the realm of delivering integrated Engineering, Procurement and Construction services to projects in the oil and gas, mineral and infrastructure sectors in Australia and across South East Asia. The Group's services range from concept development through design, construction, installation, commissioning, operations and maintenance.

In the past few weeks, they've been awarded a number of exciting projects including:

Devil Creek Development Project - Apache Energy Ltd

Generating 200+ jobs, construction on the White Dam Gold Project, located about 80kms west of Broken Hill, is expected to commence in mid 2009, with first gold production scheduled by late 2009/early 2010.

Subject to final approvals being obtained, the joint venture partners of Exco and Polymetals Group will move forward with the project, with Polymetals as the project manager.

Since its inception over 120 years ago PB has worked on some of the world's most significant infrastructure projects.  Employing more than 12,000 people in three operating divisions - the Americas (North and South), International (Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia and Australia), and Facilities, PB has just won the BRW Client Choice Award for best engineering consultancy with revenue over $200m. 

Galaxy Resources and Tectonic Resources have each announced plans to commence construction of mines, located near Ravensthorpe in the south west of Western Australia, within 12 months. Galaxy Resources is on track to commission the Mount Cattlin Lithium Tantalum project by quarter 3 of 2010. Engineering design work is currently underway, and once completed, the company will then move to tender and select an EPCM contractor for the project.