Hey Aussies

[Da_Funk]

I'm moving to Perth in May. What is the lifestyle like there? What is the cost of living? How hard is it to get to the other coast? Is doing something like Thailand or China feasible in 6 days? etc.

I'll have $115 000/yr base to work with. I will be splitting accomodations with at least two other people who also have 115 000/yr to work with. I'll be working 8 days on 6 days off.

 

[S O F I]

I don't know, but that's some nice change. Congrats on the job.

 

[SiGh]

Wow that's a good salary. What do you do for a living? How'd this opportunity come along?
Details plx.

Are you moving permanently?

Congrats Funks

 

[masta247]

Seems like that behavioral interview didn't go bad

 

[Da_Funk]

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

Wow that's a good salary. What do you do for a living? How'd this opportunity come along?
Details plx.

Are you moving permanently?

Congrats Funks

Thanks, man.

I'm a geologist, or will be, once I graduate in May. Over the last several years, the iron ore industry in NW Australia has boomed, and its created an unprecedented need for geologits. If you know anything about the Canadian oil sands explosion, its on the same order of magnitude. One of the guy's who graduated from the faculty in 2007 is now a senior geologist (manager) down there for Rio Tinto. The demand for geo's there is so great that they decided to skip all the human resource bs and recruit straight from the source. Its pretty lucky for me to be graduating at this time.

As for how long I'll be there, who knows. Minimum a year. The visa gives you a 1 year work permit that can be extended to 4 years with a work sponsor. At the end of the 4 years, they can sponsor me for a permanent visa. So we'll see. I can see myself loving it down there, but I also want to get out and see the rest of the world before I settle down. And thats the great thing about my career. I can get paid a good amount of money to work anywhere in the world.

 

[dilla]

My friend is in grad school for Geology. He loves that shit.

 

[ArtsyGirl]

WA takes up basically 1/3 of the Country. If you're in Perth then it would take approx 3 hours to fly to the closest major city (Adelaide) and an extra couple hours to the East Coast.

My cousin lived in Perth for about 4 years. They loved it, huge beach culture, beautiful surroundings. Apparently there are alot of British immigrants in Perth. Only downside is being so remote to the other Cities. I've never been but would love to check out the natural sites.

Congrats, hope you enjoy it!

 

[Pittsey]

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

Thanks, man.

I'm a geologist, or will be, once I graduate in May. Over the last several years, the iron ore industry in NW Australia has boomed, and its created an unprecedented need for geologits. If you know anything about the Canadian oil sands explosion, its on the same order of magnitude. One of the guy's who graduated from the faculty in 2007 is now a senior geologist (manager) down there for Rio Tinto. The demand for geo's there is so great that they decided to skip all the human resource bs and recruit straight from the source. Its pretty lucky for me to be graduating at this time.

As for how long I'll be there, who knows. Minimum a year. The visa gives you a 1 year work permit that can be extended to 4 years with a work sponsor. At the end of the 4 years, they can sponsor me for a permanent visa. So we'll see. I can see myself loving it down there, but I also want to get out and see the rest of the world before I settle down. And thats the great thing about my career. I can get paid a good amount of money to work anywhere in the world.

I bought some shares in a mining company who have a lot of land in Oz. Sxx. They mainly deal with Potash mining, and working on storing green energies. I bought in at 2p...

Off topic I know. But....

Sounds good though. What you are doing. My friend has just moved to Sydney on a 2 year secondment. But he's a boring accountant.

 

[Flipmo]

Holy shiznit. Congrats Funk. Glad to see those years of studying has paid off! Best of luck to you brah.

 

[Da_Funk]

Thanks Flip

WA takes up basically 1/3 of the Country. If you're in Perth then it would take approx 3 hours to fly to the closest major city (Adelaide) and an extra couple hours to the East Coast.

My cousin lived in Perth for about 4 years. They loved it, huge beach culture, beautiful surroundings. Apparently there are alot of British immigrants in Perth. Only downside is being so remote to the other Cities. I've never been but would love to check out the natural sites.

Congrats, hope you enjoy it!

Thanks Artsy. My aunt lives just outside of Brisbane, and she lived in Perth about 15 years ago and she's basically saying the same thing.

I bought some shares in a mining company who have a lot of land in Oz. Sxx. They mainly deal with Potash mining, and working on storing green energies. I bought in at 2p...

Off topic I know. But....

Sounds good though. What you are doing. My friend has just moved to Sydney on a 2 year secondment. But he's a boring accountant.

Good for you. Potash is expected to blow up even more in the next few years.

I'll be doing things like 3D subsurface mapping, GIS work (boring), core logging (cataloguing whats coming out of the ground), and hopefully some prospecting.

 

[Casey]

Congrats dude, sounds like you'll have a blast!

 

[UK_Thug]

Perth is an 'ok' city, but compared to sydney and melbourne its not great. There are some nice beaches in the area though.

If possible, I'd suggest living in Freemantle instead. Its just south of Perth, takes literally no time on the train to get to Perth, and is an awesome town. Its got a really nice vibe there and loads of decent bars and restaurants.

I wouldnt try and do Thailand in 6 days, save it til you can spend some proper time there or you'll have to leave way before you want to. I spent 4 months there, its the best country in the world! Cambodia would be a good shout though- fly in to Siem Reap, spend a couple of days seeing the temples then go to Phnom Penh for a couple of days then fly back. You dont really need much more time there, its quite a depressing country..

 

[vg4030]

You can do the "Im counting these rocks biaarrttchh!" skit

 

[S O F I]

I wouldn't want to visit Thailand in the near future. Unless you want go surfing down the street.

 

[ill-matic]

^ thats really just bangkok i think?

ive actually never been to perth. ive stayed on the east coast.

this mining boom is crazy. im in the wrong industry, thats for sure.

 

[Casey]

fucking hell, what hole did you crawl out of illy? wb dude.

 

[Da_Funk]

Perth is an 'ok' city, but compared to sydney and melbourne its not great. There are some nice beaches in the area though.

If possible, I'd suggest living in Freemantle instead. Its just south of Perth, takes literally no time on the train to get to Perth, and is an awesome town. Its got a really nice vibe there and loads of decent bars and restaurants.

I wouldnt try and do Thailand in 6 days, save it til you can spend some proper time there or you'll have to leave way before you want to. I spent 4 months there, its the best country in the world! Cambodia would be a good shout though- fly in to Siem Reap, spend a couple of days seeing the temples then go to Phnom Penh for a couple of days then fly back. You dont really need much more time there, its quite a depressing country..

I'll look into Freemantle. It shouldn't matter whether I live there or Perth since I get flown to and from work. And as I'll be working 8 days on 6 days off I don't have a commute each morning. Though I might push for 3 weeks on two weeks off type of gig.

^ thats really just bangkok i think?

ive actually never been to perth. ive stayed on the east coast.

this mining boom is crazy. im in the wrong industry, thats for sure.

Yeah, it really is something else. I mean, the amount of money they pay for an entry level salary is crazy. For the same type of job here you're looking at 60,000/yr. The price of living in say Calgary is only slightly less than that of Perth. And whats even crazier, since I'm away from home for more than 5 days/week a certain portion of my salary is tax free.

 

[7 Syns]

Perth's great. Great vibe, great girls and great beaches (though no shark nets so I'd be careful). The mining boom is great, I've recently completed a civil engineering diploma and am at the mines but I'm in NW Queensland. I'd suggest you take your days off to travel around Australia and visit the cities. Start with Adelaide, then Melbourne and gradually move up to Sydney, Gold Coast/Brisbane and then Townsville. All are different but all are great. Shit, who knows when my contract ends I might even end up in W.A. myself for a few months. Have a fun.

As for Thailand, 6 days is enough. As long as you plan that mofo out good and hit it hard you'll be right. Flights are cheapish, shopping over there is cheap too.

 

[Pittsey]

Perth's great. Great vibe, great girls and great beaches (though no shark nets so I'd be careful). The mining boom is great, I've recently completed a civil engineering diploma and am at the mines but I'm in NW Queensland. I'd suggest you take your days off to travel around Australia and visit the cities. Start with Adelaide, then Melbourne and gradually move up to Sydney, Gold Coast/Brisbane and then Townsville. All are different but all are great. Shit, who knows when my contract ends I might even end up in W.A. myself for a few months. Have a fun.

As for Thailand, 6 days is enough. As long as you plan that mofo out good and hit it hard you'll be right. Flights are cheapish, shopping over there is cheap too.

The mining company I own shares in has a large holding in Queensland. They are getting ready to drill there.

ADAVALE​

The Company currently holds exploration permits covering over 600km2 of land overlying the prospective Boree Salt Member, a formation with significant salt and potash potential. These properties lie some 50km south of the town of Blackall in central Queensland. RPS Boyd PetroSearch (Boyd) has conducted a full interpretation of the existing seismic and petroleum drilling data for the permit land on behalf of the Company. This work was carried out in two phases and has now been completed. Phase I involved the interpretation of publicly available 2D seismic data and Phase II involved digitising the available raster data of seismic lines within the project area and integrating these with the initial interpretation to produce a new robust interpretation of the Boree Salt Member.

Boyd calculated that approximately 100 billion tonnes of salts exist within the Company’s northern exploration permits, which is approximately 100% more than the Company’s original estimate. Furthermore, Boyd did not identify any fatal flaws in the current programme to explore for potash and following this work a site has been identified that is considered very prospective for potash formation.
The key challenges in the area are the availability of water in sufficient quantities and securing access to infrastructure. One potential source of water is from the waste water of coal seam gas producers in the area, if a process can be developed to clean their water sufficiently for use in the project’s processing plant. This would be a symbiotic solution as it would also solve a serious problem for the coal seam gasproducers. Furthermore it may be possible to share infrastructure links with the coal seam gas and coal mining industry, and this will be investigated.
In August 2010 the Company entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Sino-Agri Mining Industry Co. Ltd (Sino-Agri), a division of China’s second largest fertiliser distributor, to develop the Adavale project. The MOU contained an exclusivity period of 180 days to conclude a full agreement. This expired in February 2011 and the Company is taking this opportunity to consider its overall strategic approach to China as the world’s largest consumer of potash and the source of substantial commodity investment funds, in light of the transformational acquisition of York Potash earlier in the year.

 

[vg4030]

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