Rix’s Creek Coal Mine’s recently suspended traineeship program is back on track, with the mine celebrating the arrival of three new trainees selected from a record 1,500 applicants.

The Bloomfield Group (Bloomfield) is seeking a short-term consent extension for operations at Rix’s Creek Coal Mine which would enable operations to continue as the approvals process for the overall continuation consent moves through the final stages. Under the overall continuation consent application, Bloomfield is asking for permission to continue operations until 2038.

On Friday the 8th of March 2019, crews from Bloomfield Open Cut, Rix’s Creek Mine, Four Mile and Kings Engineering joined with the many retirees from The Bloomfield Group who’d spent countless hours on the P&H 5700 to give the great shovel the send-off it deserved.