Jabiru bid kicks off surge of mergers

NICKEL and gold group Independence Group's friendly $532 million bid for base metals producer Jabiru Metals has kicked off the predicted flood of merger and acquisition activity by second-ranked miners.

Putting in place resources for indigenous employment

WHEN Gabby Gumurdul started work at the Ranger uranium mine last year he worked one week on and then had a week off. Now Mr Gumurdul, from the remote Northern Territory community of Gunbalanya, typically works 60 hours a week, doing a variety of jobs at the mine.

Big Bird Has Loads Of Appeal

Grey nomads turned green with envy when they spotted Stephen Williams touring in a Trakka Jabiru.

Territory Resources Has Big Plans To Supply Global Steel Industry

TERRITORY Resources chairman Michael Kiernan is planning to offload Consolidated Minerals' Kambalda nickel business and its lucrative stake in emerging copper producer Jabiru Metals, raising several hundred million dollars, if he succeeds with a planned $780 million takeover.

Jabiru Takes Prized Mineral Region

JABIRU Metals has won the crowded race for exploration rights to the Benambra copper/zinc deposits in East Gippsland's alpine region.

It's Party Time, Chill With Friends By Pool

MARYLAND $440,000 Address: 17 Jabiru Avenue.

Beverley Dargin, Oam

Beverley Dargin, OAM BIOGRAPHY Established Araluen Aboriginal Corporation in Newcastle in the 1990s; Jabiru Dreaming, a community centre and internet cafe, in 1999; next she wants ``housing and jobs for my people". PASSION ``To reconcile Aboriginal people with other Aboriginal people. We

Jabiru Dancer Turns On Thrilling Bulli Effort For Illistom

FORMER Illawarra Mercury advertising representative Henno Illistom received his biggest thrill in harness racing when smart filly Jabiru Dancer put up a courageous performance to win the $30,000 Linden Huntley Little Memorial 2YO Fillies' Final at Bulli yesterday.

Filly Win Has Owner Dancing

A CONVERSATION over drinks proved to be a good method of buying a race horse after favourite Jabiru Dancer won heat two of the Linden Huntley Little Memorial fillies division at Bulli yesterday.

Plane Crash Claims 2 Lives

Two Victorian men - including a former mayor of Wangaratta - have been killed in an ultra-light plane crash in dense bushland in northern New South Wales. Search authorities found the plane's wreckage yesterday about 30 kilometres south-east of Tenterfield. The pilot of the Jabiru model ultra-

Jailed Blockaders Call On Amnesty

JABIRU Northern Territory police have admitted holding arrested Jabiluka uranium mine protesters in overcrowded cells, but say the protesters have chosen to stay in those conditions. On Tuesday, 118 protesters were arrested in the biggest day of action since the mine blockade in the Kakadu Na

Bhp Sells Timor Sea Interests

BHP Petroleum has sold its interests in the Jabiru/Challis/Skua oil licences in the Timor Sea to Canada's Gulf Canada Resources. A price was not disclosed but has been estimated at $30 million, based on remaining oil reserves of five million barrels and the inclusion of the Jabiru and Challis flo

$36m Safety Plan For Bhp

BHP needs to spend $36 million on its offshore oil and gas projects to bring them up to world's-best practice on safety. The upgrade will take a year to implement and involves spending $22 million on the Griffin Venture and $14 million on the Jabiru Venture floating production, storage and offloa

No Resumption Date For Jabiru

BHP Petroleum said yesterday it was not possible to say when the 12,000 barrels-a-day Jabiru oil field in the Timor Sea could resume production. The oil field, 700 kilometres west of Darwin, was shut in at the weekend after eight barrels of oil were spilt. BHP Petroleum, a 50 per cent partner

Jabiru Back On

BHP Petroleum Ltd's Jabiru oil and gas field in the Timor Sea is to resume production today after a 104-day shut-down. Production from the field was suspended in early October so the project's floating production vessel, the Jabiru Venture, could undergo scheduled maintenance and modificat

Damaged Lines The Reason For Jabiru Slowdown - Bhp

BHP said production from its Jabiru oilfield in the Timor Sea off north-west Western Australia had been hit because of damage to production lines. ``Production is down to about 4000 barrels a day and that is essentially because two of our production wells have been shut in," a BHP spokesman

Radioactive Waste From Mine Found In Kakadu

Radioactive waste from the Ranger uranium mine has been detected in Kakadu National Park and radon from the mine has been measured at the Jabiru tourist centre. The annual report by the body responsible for monitoring the environmental impact of mining in the Alligator River region, the Office o

Bhp Finds Extension To Timor Oilfield

BHP Petroleum and its partners have found a northern extension to their Jabiru oilfield in the Timor Sea. BHP Petroleum said yesterday that the Jabiru 12 well had reached a depth of 1776 metres after penetrating a six-metre (net) oil column between 1639 and 1649 metres. The well is on the nor

Bhp Bets Big On Timor Sea Wildcat

BHP Petroleum has taken its biggest ever punt in the Timor Sea with its latest wildcat well, Discorbis-1. The well, in the AC/P3 permit area about 160 kilometres south-west of the producing Jabiru oilfield and 700 kilometres west of Darwin, will test one of the largest structures identifie

Magistrate Halts Questions About Murder Accused

JABIRU: A magistrate yesterday prevented a Crown prosecutor from questioning a witness about conversations he had in a cell with Dennis Dumbiri Rostron, who is charged with murdering five members of his family in Arnhem Land last year. The Crown prosecutor, Mr Jack Karczewski, attempted t