Themes/Feature Articles

Cover Feature - Safety

• The Department and mine safety: introductory remarks by the Director-General
• Mine Safety Council - direction through consultation
• Forum jointly targets safety
• A safety culture: Department and industry in change
• Mining regulations at the coal face
• Targeted isolation assessment of coal mining equipment
• Effective measurement of safety performance
• Investigating accidents and learning the lessons
• Communicating for safety
• Mine safety on the Web
• Consultation: a stake in the future New Mines Inspection
• General Rule Effective legislative reform: the way forward

Discovery 2000

• Discovery 2000 is a gold medal winner

Feature Broken Hill Exploration Initiative

• Successful 2000 BHEI Conference
• Geochronology of Willyama Supergroup rocks near Broken Hill
• Recent advances in mapping and understanding, Koonenberry Belt
• Gold-copper and base metals exploration by Triako in the Broken Hill region
• More ore to be mined from Broken Hill

Minerals

• Proposed New Cobar opencut gold mine
• Mineral sands potential of the Murray Basin
• Kempfield silver-barite project update
• Goulburn and Cargelligo mapping projects
• Important NSW mineral projects
• Exploration Licences (ELs)
• ELs granted April-June 2000
• Summaries of terminated ELs
• ELs in force June 2000 (map)
• ELs terminated April-June 2000 (map)

Coal & Petroleum

• Why are coal prices so low?
•  Ultra Clean Coal update
• Western Districts stratigraphic drilling program, 2000
• Coal industry updates
• Coal authorisations/ELs June 2000
• Coal mining proposals June 2000
• Petroleum titles June 2000

Environment

• Derelict mines and safety

General

• Minister opens AusIMM Conference
• InvestMin highlights NSW developments
• New South Wales Minerals Conference 17-18 May 2001
•  Inaugural Opal Jewellery Design Awards
• Field Geology of New South Wales: edition 3 \
• Euriowie Metallogenic Notes
• Minerals Industry Annual
• Publications released June-August 2000
• The Department and the Goods and Services Tax