Themes/Feature Articles

Feature - Mine safety in New South Wales

• Mine safety in New South Wales - the way forward
• Gretley - response to the inquiry findings
• The Mine Safety and Environment Division restructures
• New consultative arrangements for mine safety
• Communication and training
• 1998 Occupational Health and Safety Conference
• Putting the ‘H’ back into OH&S
• Human factors in mining incidents

From the Director-General

Discovery 2000

• Discovery 2000 minerals projects - the next two years
• Discovery 2000 petroleum program, 1998-99

Minerals

• Exploration surge in the Murray Basin
• Tritton copper deposit
• Volume 2 of The Geology of New South Wales published
• Fused silica - an excellent opportunity
• The competitiveness of the New South Wales gold industry
• Release of Bathurst 1:250 000 geological map and notes
• Minister releases central west study
• Investing in Australasian Natural Resources ’98 Conference
• Important New South Wales mineral projects
• Release of CD-ROM ‘New South Wales, Australia - The Exploration Advantage’
• Cowal Commission of Inquiry
• Exploration licences
• Number of exploration licences in force 1988-89 to 1997-98
• Exploration licences granted June-August 1998
• Exploration licences in force August 1998 (map)
• Summaries of terminated exploration licences
• Exploration licences terminated before March 1998

Coal & Petroleum

• NEDO — joint coal exploration research project
• Coal industry updates
• Coal authorisations/exploration licences August 1998
• Coal mining proposals September 1998
• Petroleum titles — September 1998

Environment

• Leviathan mine rehabilitation

General

• Appointment of Assistant Director, Performance Improvement, Safety
• Publications released July — September 1998