Jun 16, 2015 Articles | Featured
Faced with the current low iron ore commodity prices, major miners are looking to maintain profits through streamlining operations and achieving productivity from their investment in improved infrastructure over recent years. Speaking at Perth’s annual Global Iron Ore and Steel Forecast Conference in March, BHP Billiton President Iron Ore, Jimmy Wilson, highlighted the huge productivity gains Read the full article…
Jun 12, 2015 Articles | Featured | Uncategorized
One of Western Australia’s most respected charities, St Bartholomew’s House (St Bart’s), has entered into a social enterprise partnership which will assist the not-for-profit agency to generate long-term and sustainable income to support communities in the Pilbara region. After a rigorous tender process, St Bart’s has been awarded a long-term partnership agreement by BHP Billiton Read the full article…
Jun 3, 2015 Articles | Featured | Government & Policy
State Budget 2015-2016: The Pilbara to receive services and infrastructure boost from Royalties for Regions Part of Royalties for Regions $4 billion investment over four years in regional WA Western Australia’s Pilbara region is set to benefit from the State Government’s Royalties for Regions investment of $4 billion over the next four years in health, Read the full article…
May 26, 2015 Articles | Featured | Government & Policy
A marina waterfront development for Port Hedland is another step closer with Council last night endorsing Spoilbank as its preferred location for the development. Mayor Kelly Howlett said a new waterfront development would be a game changer for the community. “We’ve been working with the State Government, stakeholders and community members for a number of Read the full article…
May 26, 2015 Articles | Government & Policy
A parliamentary committee is examining the mental health impacts of the fly-in fly-out (FIFO) work arrangements that are so widely employed by the resources sectors in remote parts of Australia. A spate of suicide deaths amongst FIFO worker in the Pilbara prompted the formation of the committee, which will investigate whether resource companies are adopting Read the full article…
May 20, 2015 Articles
MACRO is pleased to announce that Veronica Macpherson our Managing Director, has been named a Regional nominee for the 2015 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year awards. EY (Ernst & Young) is one of Australia’s top four accountants who project manage the arrangement of MACRO’s institutional financing, for their development projects. EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Read the full article…
May 20, 2015 Articles | Featured
Fly-in, fly-out workers are up to 70 per cent more likely to suffer mental health problems than the general Australian population, new research reveals. The biggest “stressors” for employees are isolation from families due to “length of swing” and senior management. Missing special events, such as anniversaries and birthdays, financial pressures and relationship breakdowns are Read the full article…
Apr 13, 2015 Articles | Government & Policy
The West Australian Lands Minister has refused to extend the lease on a large fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers’ camp in the Pilbara. Woodside’s 2,000-bed Gap Ridge Village was set up on the outskirts of Karratha in 2007 to accommodate construction workers on the company’s Pluto LNG Project. The facility still houses some FIFO operational workers, Read the full article…
Feb 18, 2015 Articles | Featured | State of the Market
Steel production in China will expand through to 2030, according to Rio Tinto Group, which forecast the increase after Morgan Stanley predicted that output in the largest supplier will peak this year and then contract. China’s crude-steel output will increase from 823 million metric tons last year to about 1 billion tons by 2030, Alan Read the full article…
Feb 18, 2015 Articles | Featured | State of the Market
Iron ore exports at Port Hedland have increased by 30 per cent on this time last year as the big miners ramp up production. Iron ore exports through Australia’s largest bulk commodity port totalled 36.7 million tonnes in January, up 30 per cent or 8.5 million tonnes, on the same month in 2014, figures from Read the full article…
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