Mining moving away from all-boys' club mentality

Melbourne

THE e-mail Jacqui McGill received from one of her teams at a BHP Billiton coal mine in northern Australia contained great news: output delays were down 75 per cent in a year.

That wasn't the only reason she let out a whoop of excitement. "I did my little yeehaw, because every single person on the e-mail was a woman in a production role," said Ms McGill, asset president for two of the world's biggest mining company's operations in Queensland's Bowen Basin.