If you ask a Queensland miner or gas worker what they read on site, they'll tell you it's Shift Miner. Whether it's flicking through the Miner’s Trader classifieds for a new set of wheels, doing the crossword in the crib hut, or laughing at Frank the Tank’s latest love advice in the mess, Shift Miner has been keeping miners amused for nearly a decade.

In fact, the magazine was the first to establish itself in the region, years before other copycat publications twigged to the idea that the mining industry (or specifically its workforce) was a lucrative market for advertisers trying to sell anything from motorbikes to heavy machinery.

Those publications ebb and flow depending on the economic climate (1000s of them in the boom times, not so many standing after the GFC) but Shift Miner has remained through thick and thin.