Themes/Feature Articles

Feature - Data Miners - Information technology in the mining industry

• Bengalla’s real-time environmental monitoring
• Northparkes’ cost crunch
• Pasminco’s ore hunt
• Taking services to the edge - the Department’s IT strategy
• Standards agreed for digital statutory reporting
• Standards for digital mineral exploration reports
• Standards for digital coal and petroleum reports

Discovery 2000

• Exploration initiative - an unqualified success

Feature

• The Opal Bug - the role of bacteria

Minerals

• Murray Basin strategic study
• DMR signs with Canadian partner
• Diatomite miner absorbs success
• Conodonts solve outcrop dating dilemma
• Important New South Wales mineral projects
• Exploration licences (ELs):
• ELs granted June 1999 - September 1999
• ELs in force September 1999 (map)
• Summaries of terminated ELs
• ELs terminated before April 1999

Coal & Petroleum

• Coal industry updates
• Old data reworked for offshore Clarence-Moreton Basin
• Oil and gas explorers aim for largest potential market
• Duke’s $450 million Eastern Gas Pipeline
• Strategic spotlight on Northern NSW Coalfields
• Coal authorisations/ELs - October 1999
• Coal mining proposals - September 1999
• Petroleum titles - September 1999

Environment

• Synoptic plan for rehabilitation in the Upper Hunter
• Special allocation for Woodsreef repair
• Funding boost for derelict mines

Safety

• Push is on Mine Safety Management Systems

General

• Publications released August - October 1999