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Northern Star is a global-scale Australian gold producer with world class projects located in highly prospective and low sovereign risk regions of Australia and North America. The Company has a portfolio of high-quality, high-margin underground and open pit gold mines and continues to invest in building its asset base through strategic acquisitions and aggressive exploration to extend the mine lives across its world class operations.
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Northern Star’s Purpose is to generate superior returns for our shareholders, while providing positive benefits for our stakeholders through operational effectiveness, exploration and active portfolio management. This is achieved by understanding existing and emerging community and stakeholder expectations, the needs of the communities around our operations, and the impacts of our operations. This allows Northern Star to make informed decisions on the opportunities to minimise potentially adverse negative impacts and maximise positive social and economic benefits.
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We are proud of our programmes to support our employees to feel included, respected, and importantly physically and psychologically safe at work, these include;
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Generous gender-neutral parental leave which includes superannuation top up and other return to work benefits. We are particularly pleased that the take up of primary carer leave has been across the genders
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Respect in Action, a proactive programme to help build upstander and coaching behaviours, for a more inclusive workplace.
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Mental health support and training for all our workers, and training for our leaders to better manage the impacts of psychosocial hazards on our people.
Perenti is an ASX listed diversified mining services group with interests in contract mining, mining support services and future technology solutions. Headquartered in Perth, Australia, and operating across four continents with a workforce of more than 9,000 employees, our focus is to create enduring value and certainty for our investors, clients, employees and the communities in which we operate.
Across our world class brands we are building an environment that is safe, respectful, and inclusive. We believe that diversity and inclusion drives innovation and strengthens our business and that all our people have an important role to play in our future. We are committed to having a workplace free from harmful behaviours and building a culture where everyone has the responsibility to think and act safely, speak up if they feel something needs to change and look out for one another.
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AngloGold Ashanti in an independent, global gold mining company with a diverse, high-quality portfolio of operations, projects and exploration activities across nine countries on four continents. The company has been operating in Australia since 1999 following its takeover of Acacia Resources and has two operations in the north-eastern goldfields in Western Australia – Sunrise Dam and Tropicana.
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The Sunrise Dam Gold Mine is wholly-owned and includes a 70% interest in the Butcher Well project, while at Tropicana, AngloGold Ashanti Australia is the 70% owner and manager with Regis Resources Ltd owning 30%.
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Sunrise Dam has provided an important foundation for AngloGold Ashanti in Australia since it began production in 1997. A world class orebody, Sunrise Dam has produced approximately 10Moz in 25 years of uninterrupted gold production. Underground mining is now the primary source of ore following the completion of the open pit in 2014.
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The Tropicana Gold Mine, located 330 km east-northeast of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, poured first gold in September 2013 after two-and-a-half years of construction and eight years after the initial discovery. It was officially opened in March 2014. One of the top five gold producing operations in Australia, Tropicana transitioned from large scale open pit mining to a combination of open pit and underground mining in 2020. The Boston Shaker underground mine achieved commercial production in September 2020 and achieved its full production rate of 1.1 Mtpa in the second half of 2021.
Hastings Deering sell, rent, and offer outstanding support and parts distribution services for customers across a range of industries, including mining, general construction, civil transport and commercial construction, power systems, government, primary industries and marine.
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We have over 3,000 employees, across 23 business service centres throughout Queensland, Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia, with our headquarters based in Brisbane, Australia.
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Our corporate purpose is to partner to build a better future and we do this through partnerships with our customers, suppliers, communities, our people and our shareholders. A better future is when we achieve no harm, when our customers are delighted and more productive, when our shareholders achieve superior returns, when our suppliers are successful and when our people are rewarded through achieving their best. We believe our people are our advantage. Our workforce is diverse and powerful and reflects the communities in which we operate. It's our differences that make us stronger and enable us to truly understand our customers.
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At Weir Minerals we are making mining smart, efficient and sustainable. Working in partnership with our customers, we provide the technologies that are at the heart of the global mining industry. We keep mission-critical operations running and drive environmental footprints down. Our purpose is to enable the sustainable and efficient delivery of the natural resources essential to create a better future for the world.
The growing world depends on us – it depends on us constantly reinventing and quickly adapting. Continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each and everyone one of us doing the best work of our lives.
It’s a big challenge – but it’s exciting. And it’s one we can’t wait to be part of.
Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place to work, where each individual’s contribution is recognised and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We focus on people. We believe in fairness and being honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.
We are proud to be empowering, connecting and inspiring the next generation of women leaders in the mining and resources industry as a 2023 Women in Mining and Resources Summit bursary partner.