feeds from excavation.com.au http://excavation.com.au/rss/ en-au http://excavation.com.au/rss/ http://excavation.com.au/static/campfire/layouts/images/omg-logo-small.png http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2010/1/13/the-cost-of-excavation/ Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST news Excavation projects can easily spiral out of control when it comes to finances with unexpected costs cropping up at every turn, easily making a simple job into a financial nightmare. The best way to protect, or rather, prepare yourself is to research your excavation project before you commence in order to make yourself fully aware of what is involved. One of the first things to consider is where your excavation project is located and what kind of land it is located on. Basically the p ...

Before you start your excavation job, work out a cash estimate so you know what you are up for

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2009/9/4/dealing-with-suspected-stolen-excavation-equipment/ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST news Stolen excavation equipment is a major issue in the excavation industry with estimated annual costs being approximately $1 billion dollars in the US alone. This figure has reportedly been rising as much as 20 per cent per year. Stolen excavation equipment costs impact not only for the actual cost of the machine, but to rental replacement, project downtime, management and company costs and project overrun penalties. There are measures that every company and individual ...

The market for stolen excavation equipment may be bigger than you know, but you can protect yourself

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2009/8/19/mps-to-question-handling-of-fromelles-remains/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST news THE British Parliament will raise questions about the exhumation of 300 World War I soldiers buried in a mass grave in France for more than 90 years.The all-party parliamentary war graves and battlefield heritage group, chaired by Lord Roper, is expected to reconvene in October and address the mounting controversy about the way the men's remains have been excavated as well as the tender won by the private company, Oxford Archeology.The anxiety has been fuelled by first-hand observations of the F ...

THE British Parliament will raise questions about the exhumation of 300 World War I soldiers buried in a mass grave in France for more than 90 years.

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2008/6/27/archaeology-at-ca-mine-site/ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST news COAL & Allied began a major archaeological excavation near Singleton this month on a site that possibly dates back tens of thousands of years.Members of the Aboriginal community are working with scientists to uncover the secrets of their ancestors and gain skills in cultural studies.The excavation, in the Warkworth Sands about 15 kilometres west of Singleton, has used a non-invasive technology to identify likely sites where artefacts may be uncovered.The excavated area will ...

COAL & Allied began a major archaeological excavation near Singleton this month on a site that possibly dates back tens of thousands of years.

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2008/6/14/rich-seam-of-artefacts-revealed/ Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST news ABORIGINAL artefacts unearthed in a unique $1 million archaeological excavation at a Hunter Valley open-cut coalmine site may be up to 50,000 years old, it was revealed yesterday.If luminescent and radiocarbon dating next month confirm preliminary estimates of stone implements and rock shavings found in shallow dig pits it will connect the area, 15 kilometres west of Singleton, with the arrival of Aborigines in Australia.Scarp Archaeology spokesman Michael Slack said this would make ...

ABORIGINAL artefacts unearthed in a unique $1 million archaeological excavation at a Hunter Valley open-cut coalmine site may be up to 50,000 years old, it was revealed yesterday.

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2008/2/7/search-for-dead-to-start-at-french-war-site/ Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST news EXCAVATION work will begin in April at what is believed to be a World War I mass burial site near Fromelles, France, which may contain the bodies of 400 Australian and British soldiers.The Defence Science and Personnel Minister, Warren Snowdon, last night announced the limited excavation of an area where the soldiers are believed to have fought and died in July 1916.Mr Snowdon praised the Melbourne group Friends of the Fifteenth Brigade Association, led by Lambis Englezos, who found ...

EXCAVATION work will begin in April at what is believed to be a World War I mass burial site near Fromelles, France, which may contain the bodies of 400 Australian and British soldiers.

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2007/12/8/doom-for-mining-boom/ Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST news A Monash University environmental engineer warns in a new report that mineral resources are limited, excavation costs are escalating and the environmental costs of mining are devastating. The Sustainability of Mining in Australia: Key Trends and Their Environmental Implications for the Future is written by Monash University researcher and lecturer Dr Gavin Mudd, in conjunction with the independent Mineral Policy Institute.Dr Mudd says the statistics are a serious cause for concern: "On a ...

A Monash University environmental engineer warns in a new report that mineral resources are limited, excavation costs are escalating and the environmental costs of mining are devastating. The Sustainability of Mining in Australia: Key Trends and Their Environmental Implications for the Future is written by Monash University researcher and lecturer Dr Gavin Mudd, in conjunction with the independent Mineral Policy Institute.

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2007/8/7/first-fleet-graveyard-unveiled/ Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST news CLOVER MOORE finds the discovery of 20 possible First Fleet graves below Sydney Town Hall fascinating but not enough to join in with the excavation."I'm fully occupied upstairs," said Sydney's Lord Mayor, a former archaeology student, while unveiling the dig site yesterday.The Town Hall site was one of the colony's earliest cemeteries, with about 2000 people interred there from 1792 to 1820."We'd have a lot of people who arrived on the First Fleet and on subsequent fleets [buri ...

CLOVER MOORE finds the discovery of 20 possible First Fleet graves below Sydney Town Hall fascinating but not enough to join in with the excavation.

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2006/10/24/helping-hand-for-expansion/ Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST news KURRI Kurri drilling and excavation company Arogen has received State Government funding for its expansion.The company, which has had significant growth since winning a $2.3 million contract for work on the Sandgate rail flyover project, received funding under the regional business development scheme to upgrade its workshop. Minister for Small Business David Campbell said Arogen's turnover and its workforce of 17 was expected to double.

KURRI Kurri drilling and excavation company Arogen has received State Government funding for its expansion.

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2005/12/12/a-champion-of-native-land-rights/ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST news Bangardi nga-Derkolo Lee* IT WAS the height of the bitter controversy over mining at Guratba (Coronation Hill) in the early 1990s, with BHP poised to begin excavation on Jawoyn traditional lands north-east of Katherine in the Northern Territory.Jawoyn leaders Bangardi nga-Derkolo Lee and his brother Raymond Fordimail were furious at one of their white advisers. At a moment when all seemed lost, and federal cabinet seemed highly likely to approve mining, the adviser had suggested tha ...

Bangardi nga-Derkolo Lee* IT WAS the height of the bitter controversy over mining at Guratba (Coronation Hill) in the early 1990s, with BHP poised to begin excavation on Jawoyn traditional lands north-east of Katherine in the Northern Territory.

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2005/12/10/mining-threat-to-islands-rainforest/ Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST news Christmas Island is divided over plans to extend phosphate excavation, reports Melissa Fyfe.GORDON Thomson knows that clearing rainforest is never popular. If you walk through a rainforest, he says, and imagine it gone, "you may feel pretty sick".But the Christmas Island Shire President and union secretary is absolutely backing an extension of phosphate mining that will mean almost 200 hectares of rainforest is destroyed, along with up to 1.4 million of the island's trademark red cr ...

Christmas Island is divided over plans to extend phosphate excavation, reports Melissa Fyfe.

http://www.excavation.com.au/news/2005/4/27/gully-fill-gets-council-nod/ Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EST news A NEWCASTLE City Council plan to fill a gully in King Edward Park, alleged to be a way of getting rid of fill from the excavation of cliffs near the Bogey Hole and South Newcastle Beach, has been approved. Councillor Keith Parsons told the council last night the plan was "philistine" and "crude vandalism".The council was considering its own development application to fill the eastern section of a gully on the northern side of King Edward Park, in Ordnance Street.The park is Cro ...

A NEWCASTLE City Council plan to fill a gully in King Edward Park, alleged to be a way of getting rid of fill from the excavation of cliffs near the Bogey Hole and South Newcastle Beach, has been approved.