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The pain was felt in Queensland with announcements this week indicating that 100 jobs would go from each of the Kestrel, Clermont and Burton coal mines in the state.
Glencore blamed low coal prices, high input costs and a resilient Australian dollar for the Clermont cuts, which will be implemented by October.
Rio Tinto similarly blamed low coal prices and a strong Aussie dollar for the 100 Kestrel jobs which will go by the end of September.
Mine operating contractor Thiess was criticised this week for using text messages to break the job-cutting news to workers at Peabody鈥檚 Burton open cut mine.
Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union district president Steve Pierce told the ABC that more than 100 texts were received by Thiess contractors who would cease work from this Friday.
Going back to nearly four weeks ago, Glencore also announced it would cut 100 jobs from its Newlands open cut coal mine, also in Queensland, by the end of September.
Across the border into New South Wales, struggling Illawarra miner Wollongong Coal finally put its geotechnically challenged Wongawilli longwall mine on care and maintenance last week.
Most of the jobs had already gone from this operation but a skeleton crew of 16 was impacted according to the Illawarra Mercury.
This region also had bad news in late June with BHP Billiton subsidiary Illawarra Coal announcing 85 redundancies.
