- 1. Safety net tightens for Queensland resources workers
- (Latest)
- ... in the past two years and just in May this year five miners were seriously injured at an underground coal mine,” Mines Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said. “In the 21st century this is unacceptable.” “I ...
- Created on 02 July 2020
- 2. The Birth, Death And Rebirth Of A Mine
- (Features)
- ... generate cash flow within 30 months of access to the project. Our approach is based on the belief and experience that virtually no underground mine that has operated in the past ever exhausted its resources ...
- Created on 30 June 2020
- 3. Real-Time Geotechnical Characterisation In Underground Mines Improving Safety
- (Features)
- By Bongani Dlamini Australia’s mining sector has been encouragingly proactive in implementing safety initiatives that have resulted in a significant reduction in underground coal mine roadway failures ...
- Created on 30 June 2020
- 4. Mining in the Philippines: Trends and opportunities
- (Around the Region)
- ... for more than 58 per cent of the country’s total gold production. In terms of mining method, five are underground and one open-pit mine. In terms of nickel production, Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) and mixed ...
- Created on 30 June 2020
- 5. Orica and Epiroc partner to deliver blast automation
- (Product News)
- Orica and Epiroc Rock Drills AB will jointly develop a semi-automated explosives delivery system, enabling safer and more productive blasting operations in underground mines. As mines go deeper and ...
- Created on 12 May 2020
- 6. Australian company weaponises mine safety
- (Supplier News)
- Greater safety for underground miners is now easier to implement thanks to the launch of an innovative new product developed and produced in Bendigo in regional Victoria, Australia. The ...
- Created on 12 May 2020
- 7. Weir provides a sustainable solution to tailings dewatering
- (Waste to Energy)
- ... facilities are easier to rehabilitate. To a growing extent, thickened tailings are also used for underground mine backfill. This can increase productivity and reduce mine cycle times, as well as surface ...
- Created on 29 April 2020
- 8. ExScan could be world’s largest robot
- (Leading Developments)
- CSIRO engineers have developed a new scanning device that can give a full panoramic view of an underground coal mine in real time. Called the ExScan, the device is set to revolutionise the underground ...
- Created on 21 April 2020
- 9. ABB digital application provides real-time integration in open pit and underground mines
- (Product News)
- ... technology was piloted at Boliden’s Renstrom underground mine in Sweden and by ArcelorMittal at the Mont-Wright open pit mine in Canada. *Article published in the October-December 2019 issue of The Asia ...
- Created on 12 February 2020
- 10. Blasting leader goes global with home-grown tech
- (Supplier News)
- ... mining into underground operations,” he said. “We also engineered electronic detonation technologies and blast planning software.” He noted that its role as a blasting contractor – in addition to being ...
- Created on 11 February 2020
- 11. Charting the rise of nickel in the shadow of Indonesia’s export flip
- (Features)
- ... centre for the Perth-based producer, the hub will be underpinned by a new high-grade underground deposit, Odysseus, part of Western Areas’ broader existing Cosmos mining operations near Leonora and for ...
- Created on 30 January 2020
- 12. OceanaGold fights for Didipio
- (Around the Region)
- ... with the National Government, not the local government units, taking the matter to the Philippine Court of Appeals in Manila. Due to the depletion of consumable mining supplies, Didipio’s underground ...
- Created on 30 January 2020
- 13. Anglo American greenlights Aquila hard coking coal project in Australia
- (Leading Developments)
- Anglo American plans to spend US$226 million to extend the life of the Capcoal underground (Grasstree mine) hard coking coal operations in Queensland, Australia. Development of the Aquila operation, ...
- Created on 30 January 2020
- 14. Curtin minerals exploration technique wins commercialisation prize
- (Leading Developments)
- Curtin University’s work in commercialising an innovative minerals exploration technique that uses sound waves to create a detailed 3D image of underground ore deposits was recognised at the Knowledge ...
- Created on 30 January 2020
- 15. Partners’ tech pipelines vital to mine productivity
- (Supplier News)
- ... to better blasting methods – to optimise key blasting outcomes like fragmentation. Underground mines will also want to quantify the benefits of emulsions in terms of shaft efficiency, as emulsions do not ...
- Created on 23 January 2020
- 16. Digitisation in beneficiation technology helping reduce water consumption
- (Leading Developments)
- ... surface. The fluorite thus accumulates in the resulting foam while the waste rock is left behind. Before the latter can be deposited on a waste dam or returned underground as a filling material, a dewatering ...
- Created on 23 January 2020
- 17. PYBAR a step closer to advanced underground automation with second Cat®R1700
- (Latest)
- PYBAR has taken a step closer to advanced underground automation at the Dargues Gold Mine in New South Wales with the arrival of a second new Cat® R1700 underground loader at the Diversified Minerals site. ...
- Created on 18 December 2019
- 18. Northern Star to snap up 50 per cent of KCGM Super Pit
- (Latest)
- ... is 120,000 to 140,000oz at an AISC of A$1,450/oz to A$1,550/oz. KCGM Operations include the Fimiston Open Pit (the Super Pit), the Mt Charlotte Underground Mine and the Fimiston and Gidji Processing ...
- Created on 18 December 2019
- 19. Three possible dust cases notified
- (Latest)
- ... He worked in an underground mine for the past nine years and is not known to have worked in any other jurisdictions or high-risk industries. “The management of airborne contaminants has been an ...
- Created on 05 December 2019
- 20. GroundProbe awarded the 2019 IET gong
- (Latest)
- ... Successfully proven in underground mines as a geotechnical monitoring tool, the GML was adapted for civil projects where it reduces the environmental impact and cost of tunnelling through reduced shotcrete ...
- Created on 21 November 2019