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The Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DEMIRS) is a department of the Government of Western Australia.The department was formed on 1 July 2017, out of the former Department of Mines and Petroleum and Department of Commerce.
The following companies operated copper mines in Western Australia in 2022–23, according to the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety.To qualify for the department's official list of principal mining projects an operation has to either had mineral sales valued at more than $5 million, or, for operations where such figures are not reported, had a minimum of 50 employees: [26 ...
Government Geologist (1896 was known as the Geological Survey Branch. [6] Before the change of 1992, the branches had become divisions: Geological Survey [7] Mining Engineering [8] Petroleum (usually known as the Petroleum Operations Division) [9] Government Chemical Laboratories [10] Corporate Services; Explosives and Dangerous Goods; Mining ...
1937: Public and government outcry when Nippon Mining proposed not to use Australian labour but to send its own engineers to construct the Koolan Island mine. 1939–45: Labour shortages as a result of the Second World War caused many mines to cease operation, and following the war, many did not re-open.
25th Anniversary of the Surface Mining Law: A report on the protection and restoration of the nation's land and water resources under the Surface Mining Law, Office of Surface Mining, 2003. Available at OSM website. Green, Edward. State and Federal Roles Under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 21 S. Ill. U. L.J. 531 (1997)
1990, 7 February: Two men, a mining engineer and the managing director of a contracting company, died when a concrete block fell down the raise in the Edwards Find underground gold mine, near Marvel Loch. [61] 1989, 13 June: Six men died when a decline at Western Mining's underground Emu Mine, now the Agnew Gold Mine, flooded after heavy rain.
Mining in Western Australia is administered in terms of the administrative divisions of the:- Gold or Mineral Field; Goldfield District; There have also been various hierarchies of State Mining Engineer Inspectorate areas, as well as Mining Registrars Offices and areas.
In 2020–21 the Western Australian Government received A$9.8 billion in royalties from the iron ore mining industry in the state. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] [ 6 ] [ 3 ] The remaining life of the Pilbara iron ore fields has been estimated as 65 years from 2021.