Category: Featured

Rock star: how Morgan swapped goalkeeping for a career chasing hidden craters
As a talented junior soccer player, Morgan Cox initially planned on a career in sports science. But a long-standing fascination with rocks sparked a move into geology.
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World-first possum finishing school prepares endangered creatures for life back in the wild
The school aims to prepare orphaned or abandoned young Western Ringtail Possums for life back in the bush.
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‘Seeing a Haulpak for the first time…I fell in love’
Thanks to an apprenticeship with Griffin Coal, Summah Marshall has started a career she knows could take her around the world.
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Going global: WA drillers and blasters set to take bright idea to the world
A stunningly simple but effective invention could be about to provide a solution to one of mining's long-standing safety risks.
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Alcoa steps up to help our iconic and threatened Black-Cockatoos
Bauxite miner and alumina producer Alcoa is taking a multifaceted approach to helping Western Australia’s iconic Black-Cockatoos.
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Meet the battery-powered 4WD that could change the Australian mining scene
As a mining engineer, Steve Durkin always wanted to know why things were done the way they were done. His latest innovation could be about to significantly change staus quo.
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BHP adding LNG-fuelled carriers to transport WA iron ore
The iron ore miner says the new fleet could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30 per cent per voyage.
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First mining companies join Australian carbon neutral ranks
A small Goldfields drilling company run by twin brothers is among two Australian mining businesses to be certified as carbon neutral.
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Docker turned Eagle embraces FIFO life instead of AFL hub
Anthony Jones has added a new listing to an already very interesting CV - FIFO worker.
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A new view for the world’s densest collection of rock art
Murujuga National Park is home to more than one million pieces of rock art, some of it more than 40,000 years old.
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