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Written by Business Editor Christopher Russell, The Advertiser |
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Tuesday , 05 July 2011 |
IMX Resources is pushing worker retention by offering a $10,000 bonus to live in Coober Pedy, 55km from its Cairn Hill mine.
"IMX Resources is very keen to support the population of Coober Pedy," company managing director Duncan McBain says.
"That's why we have employed locally where we can, why we support local sport, education, opal mining and health activities and why we established the Coober Pedy Living Allowance.
"The allowance roughly equates to an additional $10,000 a year, encouraging employees of both IMX and our mining contractor, Exact Mining Services, to settle in the Coober Pedy community."
Cairn Hill employs about 200 people and IMX also has built a 66-person village in Coober Pedy to accommodate fly-in, fly-out staff.
The village has been built within Crowder's Gully, the site of Coober Pedy's first opal field which opened in 1916.
In another local initiative, IMX is signing up four new Aboriginal workers as part of its commitment to indigenous employment. IMX, which shipped its first iron-copper ore last December, has already reached the 500,000-tonne mark.
The Star of Abu Dhabi was due to depart Port Adelaide over the weekend, bound for Bayuquan in China.
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