Airlie Beach Vac Student Australia Day Party!

For Australia Day this year we organised for our engineering mates and vac students from around the area who could make it to meet in Airlie beach for the long weekend. The majority of us stayed in a backpacker’s right in the middle of Airlie and partied hard for three days! Was definitely the most fun I’ve ever had and I made a heap of new engineering mates at the same time. Is going to be an awesome year at UNI!

Vacation Work with Queensland Magnesia

This year I decided to take a one month job with Queensland Magnesia (QMAG) in Rockhampton to experience something a little different from last year. I stayed in Felicity’s house in the suburbs of Rocky and about 3mins from the head office! Thanks Flic!
The Magnesite deposit is mined at Kunwarara which is about 70kms north of Rockhampton:
– Deposit is largest known of its type
– Open Cut Mine, Washing, Crushing, Screening, Scrubbing, Separation & Sorting
– Bulk Shipments, or transported to Parkhurst in Rockhampton for processing
The processing plant and head office are located in Parkhurst, the processing consists of:
– Calcining (1030c), Screening & Blending
– Griniding, Briquetting, Dead-burning
– Electrofusion (3000c), Ingot Breaking, Crushing / Bagging
– Calcine, Bagged or Containerised
While there I was working in an OH&S position updating the operator training packages used onsite. It was a great experience to do something different and a good way to get to understand a different side of a mining operation!