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Hume to deliver $600M in wages: Duncan

HUME Coal’s proposed underground coal project will generate 300 long-term, well paid careers, drawing over $600 million in wages and salaries for the life of the mine, the company’s project director Greig Duncan said.

Lou Caruana
Hume coal project director Greig Duncan.

Hume coal project director Greig Duncan.

Duncan said much of that $600 million could be spent in local businesses because those who lived local and worked local also spent local. He said the low-impact underground operations would primarily...

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