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Coal more productive than iron ore, gold sectors: CFMEU

THE unionised coal mining sector concentrated in New South Wales and Queensland is more efficient than the non-unionised iron ore and gold mining sectors in Western Australia, according to research by the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union.

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Coal more productive than iron ore, gold sectors: CFMEU

Over the past 20 years physical output per person in the mostly unionised coal mining sector had grown by 2.6% per year, compared with 1.7% per year in iron ore mining, while Western Australian gold, which...

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