Hunter coal mine shutdown, hundreds of jobs in doubt

By Michael Parris
Updated July 9 2018 - 4:58pm, first published 3:55pm
A NSW Mine Safety Investigation Unit image of the accident site where James Mitchell and Phillip Grant died at Austar in 2014.
A NSW Mine Safety Investigation Unit image of the accident site where James Mitchell and Phillip Grant died at Austar in 2014.

Yancoal has redeployed almost 200 workers to short-term jobs as it awaits the outcome of an appeal against two safety notices which have shut down its troubled Austar colliery near Cessnock.

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