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The pain of mining austerity: 7000 Queensland coal jobs gone

MINING.com Editor | June 29, 2013 | 6:34 pm Energy Australia Coal 

Roughly 7000 coal sector jobs have disappeared from the Australian state of Queensland in just over a year, The Courier-Mail reported Saturday. "New market realities" including collapsing commodity prices, slowing Asian demand and diminishing profits have prompted many of the world's mining...

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