as asx mah industry mining founded 1963 headquarters perth australia key people sybrandt van dyk ceo and managing director number of employees over 2500 website http www.macmahon.com.au macmahon holdings limited was founded by brian macmahon an adelaide civil engineer in 1963 . it is based in perth western australia with offices in queensland northern territory south australia and malaysia . the company operates in the mining and construction sectors and is listed on the australian stock exchange . it has an annual turnover of about a 850 million . in june 2008 macmahon made a hostile takeover bid for rival company ausdrill ltd. 1 in january 2013 macmahon secured its largest ever contract from fortescue metals group after it was awarded a 1.8 billion contract for the christmas creek mining operation s expansion . the five year contract would deliver all aspects of mine operations including drill and blast overburden removal ore harvesting maintenance of equipment and associated services for the expansion . 2 references edit few shareholders accept macmahon offer thewest.com.au macmahon wins major christmas creek contract international mining weekly 2013 external links edit www.macmahon.com.au v t e mining companies of australia adelaide brighton cement allegiance mining alumina aquarius platinum atlas iron bhp billiton bougainville copper compass resources copper mines of tasmania energy resources of australia fortescue metals group grd hancock prospecting iluka resources international ferro metals laguna resources macarthur coal macmahon holdings magellan metals marathon resources marston minara resources mineralogy minerals and metals group mount lyell mining and railway company new hope coal newcrest mining orocobre oz minerals paladin energy pilbara iron qcoal rio tinto aluminium rio tinto group south32 tiwest joint venture this article about an australian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title macmahon holdings & oldid 676967726 categories mining companies of australiacompanies based in perth western australiaholding companies of australiacompanies established in 1963australian company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 august 2015 at 07 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view