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14 March 2014 : Icthys Steelworks Awarded. MMC to Support.
MMC Australia will assist in the supply of steelworks for the Bam Clough Joint Venture that has been awarded the contract for the Product Loading Jetty for the Ichthys LNG Project. Click-here to read ICN Announcement.10 July 2013 : Local Steel
Read the full article featuring MMC in the first edition of Ichthys Project Bulletin04 June 2013 : No-Nosense Approach
Read the full article featured on page 134 in Resource In Focus Magazine04 June 2013 : Local Businesses given a red hot go!
Three Teritory businesses have won four contracts worth more than $8 million, and as a result the work will create about 70 new jobs for Territorians. Read the full article featured in the ICN Newsletter11 March 2013 : Rebranding MMC
To our valued custormers, suppliers and colleagues; Mine Maintenance and Construction (NT) Pty Ltd is moving into a new phase. Click on the link to read the Rebranding MMC Notification from MMC Manager, Owen Pike.01 October 2012 : Work boom in mining fabrication
MMC tripling its size thanks to gas boom. Read the full article that featured in NT Business News28 November 2011 : MMC growing with the industry
New contracts and a planned expansion for MMC in 2012. Read the full articlethat featured in the Career One section of the NT News.26 March 2008 : At home in Winellie
A snapshot of MMC from 2008. Read the full articlethat featured in the NT News.Industry News
Find out what's happening, in the NT and around Australia in the mining, construction and oil & gas industries:
07 March 2018 : Which metal is the least likely to occur in its pure form in nature?
Aluminium
A native metal is any type of metal that is found in its pure metallic form in nature. While aluminium is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, it only occurs on its own in nature in low oxygen environments inside some volcanoes . The main source of aluminium is bauxite ore, which in turn is composed of minerals such as gibbsite (Al2O3.3H2O), boehmite (Al2O3.H2O) and diaspore. Australia is the biggest producer of bauxite in the world.
Gold is the best-known native metal, found by itself or alloyed with copper or other noble metals like silver, platinum and palladium.
Copper is also found in its pure form, but the majority of copper in Australia is found as copper iron sulfide(CuFeS2) or chalcopyrite. Copper is also found in azurite Cu3(CO3)3 and malachite Cu3(CO3)2.
Native silver oxidises very quickly. Most silver in Australia is found in trace amounts in freibergite, tetrahedrite and pyragyrite in the lead mineral galena (PbS).
05 March 2018 : Australia has the world's largest deposits of which mineral?
Uranium.
Australia has approximately 38 per cent of the world's recoverable deposits of uranium and we are world's third largest producer of uranium after Canada and Kazakhstan.
We also have the world's largest deposits of brown coal, lead, rutile, zircon, nickel, tantalum, and zinc.
Australia has the world's second largest reserves of bauxite behind the Republic of Guinea, and the world's second largest deposit of gold, equal with Russia.
We rank fourth in the world for iron ore deposits behind the Ukraine, Russia and China. We rank third in production behind Brazil and China and are the world's largest exporter of iron ore.
22 February 2018 : Frack Facts
Follow this Facebook page for the truth about fracking in the NT. Read the facts for yourself to make up your mind
These are just some of the reasons we need it;
1. To improve the current state of the economy so we can help reduce the number of businesses closing their doors
2. To stop the falling prices of our homes
3. To have private industry invest into the NT rather than constantly relying on Government.
4. To give our kids future prosperity and the choice to stay in Darwin to study and work and to give locals pathways for work right now.
5. To increase our population so we continue to receive some level of GST, the formula is set in stone.
6. To ensure the revenue comes back into the NT and not into Canberra or overseas like other major projects have done in the past.
7. Onshore Gas will provide power to nearby communities and stations. (Currently, QLD power grid stops at the NT/QLD border and the NT power grid stops at Mataranka.
8. Fracking will open the door to 1,500 jobs for locals here in the NT.
All the reports and history proves fracking of natural shale gas (not coal seam or oil) has not had any water contamination incidents. NSW Chief Scientist reviewed the evidence from 2.5 million fracking wells around the world and failed to identify a single case of contaminating ground water.
06 February 2018 : Mirny Mine- The world largest Diamond Mine
This is a fasinating mine, not only for its size but how they had to deal with freezing temperatures when it was operational.
Mirny Mine is the world’s biggest Diamond mine, at 525 meters in depth and 1,200 meters in diameter, it is the 2nd largest excavated hole in the world and the 4th deepest. Diamonds were first discovered in 1955 and while it’s no longer operational, when it was it took 2 hours for trucks to drive from the bottom to the top.
The temperatures in winter were so cold that the entire mine had to be covered completely overnight to stop machinery from freezing. They encountered numerous problems throughout winter like, oil freezing, steel and car tyres shattering.
Check out this video to see how the mining industry has been running in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia.
