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THIS year marks 85-years of business for CIMIC mining services contractor, Thiess. With an order book brimming with new contracts and extensions, 2019 looks set to be another successful year. Thiess’ history dates back to 1934 – when five Thiess brothers began work as road contractors in Darling Downs, and forged a reputation for excellence in construction. In the 1940s the brothers pioneered large-scale open cut coal mining activities in QLD and NSW in response to an energy crisis, and in 1958 nabbed one of the most sought after Australian construction contracts at the time – the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. Flash forward to 1961; the company went global, winning its first civil engineering contract outside of Australia for the…

All images: BHP Billiton BY ELIZABETH FABRI AS the hangover from Cyclone Debbie subsides, BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) continues to push forward with investments across its Bowen Basins operations, including $US204 million towards the Caval Ridge Southern Circuit (CRSC) capital growth project. A joint venture between BHP Billiton and Mitsubishi Development, the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) is Australia’s largest coal producer and supplier of seaborne metallurgical coal, accounting for about 28 per cent of the world’s seaborne met coal trade. The coal giant owns nine mines covering a combined area of 75,000sqkm in the resource rich Bowen Basin in Central Queensland; seven of which are operational. Its current portfolio of operating mines comprises Goonyella Riverside, Broadmeadow, Daunia, Peak…